THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 19,
1937...
BROADCAST
Shammed Death, Ran RADIO
To 'Phone Police
TWO BANDITS FELL GARAGE MAN
One-Eye Watch On Till
(By A SPECIAL REPORTER)
London, June 25. CYRIL HAWKINS,
'twenty-one - year old garage hand, shammed death to save himself from bandits who attacked him in his office early yesterday.
Relay on "Summer Over The British Isles"
DANCE MUSIC
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Wavelengths of 355 metres (845 k.e.'), 31.40 metres (0.52 me.'s).
6-11 pm. Chinese Programme.
pan. Relay of Dance Music from the Roof-Garden of the Hongkong Hotel.
Programme
5-5.15 p.m. 1. An Excuse for Dane- ing: 2. Malihini Mele; 3. I was saying
to the Moon; 4. Mood Hollywood.
5.15-0.20 p.m. Interval of recorded ance music from Z.B.3.
6.28-5.30 p.m. 5. So do I; 0, Pennica from Heaven; 7. One, Two, Button your Shoe: 8. The Skeleton in the Cupboard.
5.6-5.40 pan. Interval of recorded dance music from Z.B.W.
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5.40-5:55 p.m. 9. Floating Bubble; 10. September in the Rain; it, New Orleans 12. Tango Negro.
5.63-0 1.m. Interval of recorded dance music from Z..W,
6-6.15 p.m. 13. Don't let this Waltz mean Goodbye; 14. In the Middle of
a
Klang 15. The Sweetheart Waltz: 16. Love passes by.
6.15-0.30 p.m. Interval of recorded
dance music from Z.IW.
6.29-0.30 pm, 17. Top of the Town; 18. Where are you; 10. Some of these
dayat 20. Peanut Vendor.
0.30 pm. Light Orchestral Music. The Fair Maid of Perth-Sulte (Bizet), Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philharmonie Orchestra, An Evening with Liszt (Urbach).
Marek Weber and his Orchestra; "Henry VIII" Dances (E. German). .... New Symphony Orchestra.
Two men had called at the Observatory Gar- age, Watford-way, Lon- don, and cracked open his head with a blow from a steel jack handle. They rained more blows around him while Haw-steel "ears" it can catch and alias sounds many miles away and is expected to be an excellent source of aid in the Saw de Wheel (Af. L. This listening apparatus was tried on board the liner Handang during a recent voyage to America. With Its kins dodged and thought,
fight against fort. As the illustration shows the apparatus is fitted with binoculars, "I've got to bluff them.' He flopped to the ground,
blood streaming down his❝IF YOUR CHILDREN
face.
He lay stiff and still, his eyes shut, his senses all alert. He had planned his bluff. There was a police box just outside the garage.
He would lie there till the men en- tered the office to search for the
money, then race for the police tele-
phone.
He heard the men ran, opened one eye, saw them run through the office
door.
RAIDED TILL
Hawkins himself toldl me what happened then-how he carried off his bluft, staggered to his feet and
WERE DOGS-!"
Magistrate's Wish
WHEN Herbert Hurt and Elsic Hurt, of Morat-street, Brixton,
were sentenced to fourteen days in the second division at South Western Police Court recently for neglecting their six children, it was revealed that they had been under observation since 1929.
He Faces Death Every Day At Work
DR
BURGESS
NETT,
p.m., Songs by Faul Itobeson (Bass).
(Arr. L. Brown); (a) De Ole Ark's Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho
Movering (Arr. Hall Johnson); (b) Brown): (a) Hanmer Song (b) LT! David (Arr. L. Brown); (a) Mam' selle Marie (Creole Song) (Gulon). (b) Dere's no hidin' place (An Brown)..
7.12
p.m. Patricia Rossborough at
the Plano.
Here 15
my HeartSelection; Dames; Anything Goes-Selection.
7.25 p.m. Stock Quotations Hongkong Exchange Market.
7.30 p.m. Variety,
and
Band-Coronation March and
Hymn (Sir Edward
German-Arr.
Dan Godfrey). The Guards Patrol, (Williams), ... Regimental Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards; Violin Solo -Daybrenic
(Reginald King).
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(Reginald King); Melody Canadian Club
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Dusk Albert
Sandler;
Solo-The BAR
Dubarry (Carter MilloCker curator of Mackeben); I give my Heart (Leigh The children were said to have been so dirty that the school reptiles at London Zoo, -MilloCker-Mackeben).
Gitta authorities kept them from mixing with other children.
whose research into the uses Magic; Me and the Moon.....
Alpar; Vocal-South
Sta
island of snake venom has revised Crosby;
Bing Orchestral Waldeslust, self just recovered from a tour) medical knowledge, has him- Walzer (Arr. W. Schlesinger); Wiener Prater Leben, Walzer (S. Transin- ... Columbia Salon Orches- dangerous snake bite.
Announce- p.in. Weather,
ran to the police box as the bandits "This case is an appalling one. If I were dealing with the neglect Passing sentence, the magistrate, Mr. Claud Mullins, said: of dogs I could order you to have no more dogs.
ransacked the ti,
He grabbed the 'phone and called for help just a second before
"I wish I had the power, to send you to hospital to be they reached him, heat off their sterilised."
Recond attack with one of their own weapons.
He talked to me at his home in
Sturgess-uvenue, Hendon, N.W., he £1,500 AWARD Epstein Strand
and bandaged by
doctors at Redhill Hospital, Edgware. TO WIDOW:
He sold:
"I was doing night duty, the
regular man being on holiday. He's MAY NOT
สก
old
This might have min.
finished him off.
"I was in the office when the two
men came in. One asked: 'Can you
GET A PENNY.
let me have some petrol in a can?' Awarding £1,500 and costs to the "As I got up to serve them one widow of a man who was killed while landed me a blow on the side of the riding in a lorry, Mr. Justice Swift hend.
sold he doubted whether she or her
"I staggered away, dodging blows-children would get a penny. How I missed them I dont's know.
tra,
*7.57
Theatre (Chic from the Po Hing
He has left the Londonments and Time. Hospital for Tropical Dis- eases, where he had been a patient for a week.
Dr. Barnett was bitten while he was examining polsonous reptiles received
Statues To Be from Cape Town. Removed
SCULPTOR MAKES HIS PROTEST
SIX of the twenty-two
Dr. Barnett has used snake venom as an agent 13 the treatment of haemophilia (bleeding that cannot be stopped), cancer, epilepsy, asthma and hay fever.
(Chinese).
11 p.m. Close Down.
H-11 p.m. European Programme front Z. B. K. on a frequency of 640 kilocycles.
3 p.m. London-"Summer Over the British Isics", produced by Laurence Gillam.
0.40 p.m. Half an Hour of Scottish Music.
The Thistle (Myddleton)..... The Londen Palladium Orchestra; "Songs of the Hebrides"-An Eriskay Love Lilt (M. Kennedy-Fraser); Herding Song (Arr. M. Lawson)..... Josephí Hes-(Arr. Diack): Meg Merrilees (Arr. Hislop (Tenor); Glasgow Highlanders Dlack)... Scottish Country Dance Orchestra: "Folk Songs of Scotland" Whistle and I'll come to you, my Galley (Kennedy Fraser). Lad (Stophen and Burnett); McLeod's
Mor- garet Barrett (Soprano); O Sing to me the Old Scotch Songs (Leeson); Ye Banks and Braes (Arr. Lees).
Joseph Hislop (Tenor). 9.10 p.m. London Newa and An- nouncements.
Much of his work has been done in collaboration with Dr. R. G. Macfarlane, of Hammersmith pital.
SAVED MANY LIVES As a result of their joint experi- ments in using venom fx Epstein statues on fangs of the Russell's Viper, a new Rhodesia House,
Strand, haemophilla.
been found for are to be removed, after
It has the effect of clotting blood rapluty.
Mrs. Jone Eliza McNally (36), of "Then I decided to flop out, try Cornwall Street, Shedwell, E., claim- to bluff them. As I dropped and layed damages on behalf of herself and ground. One of them had dropped five children in respect of the death examination by architects. or her husband, William Alfred Me- The fate of the others is
5 I heard steel clatter on the
the Jack.
MEN GAVE CHASE
I run shouted Help! I thought there might be a policeman around.
Nally.
Defendanis
wero
Merrington Brothers, Limited, British Empire
being considered. "They ran into the office. jumped up, took the jack handle,
Recently a woman had her raced for the poller box outside. As Exhibition, Wembley; George Henry foot Injured by half the head of Evans, who was employed by them as
lorry-driver; Royans. Transport, one statue falling into the street. Limited, and Cecil William Wakeln,
Mr. Jacob Epstein said: "I do not want the statues taken down and do not think it necessary.
"The men heard me and ran after me.
"They reached me just as I grabbed the 'phone out of the box and shouted down it.
of Hillmorton, Rugby.
་
KILLED IN CRASH
by
Evans was driving a lorry which
a stationary lorry owned Royans Transport and driven
"I had to drop the phone to hit defend myself. The men struck
out at me again, but 1 beat them Wakelin. off.
"I was shouting all the time. They
ran off.
treatment
hns
One experiment showed that where haemophilian blood Normally took 35 minutes to coagulate, solution of the venem made coagulation pos- sible in about 17 seconds.
The
I
0.35 p.m. Latest Variety Numbers. Cinema Organ-Lionel Monckton Melodies. Al Bollington; Vocal treatment, it s claimed, has-Mon Petit Lit D'enfant; Depart. the lives of many people piano Medley. No. D. 2..... Charlic
Lucienne Boyer: Plano Solo- sufre of the down Kunz. ng the "curse of the Bourbons."
saved
of
Venom in a dried form is now also
10 p.m. Big Ben. Lawn Tennis: widely used by bleeding after
dentists in stop A commentary by Caplain H. B. T. The Davis Cup Inter-Zone Final. the extraction teeth.
Wakelam and Colonel R. H. Brand, Dr. Barnett haa
from Wimbledon. recently been "I called attention three years ago directing his research
10.30 p.m. New Dance Records. on snako
Fox-Trot-Take
unather by to the trouble. Metal plates above venom as a cure for epilepsy.
guess; the statues are made, I believe, of
Using puff-addler venom, ho
The rhythm's OK. In Hortem: Swing High. Swing Low: Wallz-Will you carried out experiments in 14 tion runs down on the statues and copper, and in bad weather a solu-
cases.
remember; Fox-Trot-Speaking of corrodes them. No stone could stand from fits, nine were improved, and the sweet long ago; Fox-Trat-Choir Four showed complete cessation the weather; Waltz-My heart's In Old Killarney; Slow Fox-Trot-In It. They should remove the plates," only one was unaffected.
Dr. Barnett, who handles makes Boy: Tango Fox-Trot-Don't play at the Zoo almost daily, has one of with fire; Fox-Trot - My Jiitlo the most dangerous jobs in the
buckaroo. country.
11 p.m. Close Down.
McNally, a brother-in-law of Evans, was with him and was killed.
"A police car came rushing up. I Judgment was entered for Mrs. told what had happened and got in, McNally for £1,500, with costs went with them to try to find the men. We failed.
against Evans, and for the other 'No' To Appeal
defendants against. Mrs. McNally,
WATER LEVELS
FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS
CHARGE NOT PROVED
"Then they took me to hospital.] "From what I have been told," said The statues, male and female I was covered with blood—had five the judge, it seems to me that whatgures representing physical quali- stitches in my head."
ever may be the result of this case,tles, were modelled for the British The manager of the garage said the widow and children will never Medical Association, which formerly
occupied the building. to ine: "Hawkins was very brave, get anything. The police wanted to take film to The law ought to take
When care that
the Southern hospital right away, but he refused owners and drivers of vehicles could Government took over the bullding Rhodesian
At the Central Magistracy this to ge till he'd delven round with pay proper compensation for damage the ligh Commissioner suggested
inorning, Mr. Keen found that the them in an effort to plek up the done.
The River Conservancy Bureau for
charge against Carlos Francisco men."
that the statues should be removed. Kwangtung Province Laurs the fallowing Xavier Alves, aged 41, of indecently The judge sold he was satisfied that Another suggestion was that they West. North and East Rivers:
report on water levels, in metres, for the exposing himselt in front of The bandits took Just over £10 Evans was to blame for the accident, should be replaced by statues of the
English girl of 15 years, on board a Highest Lowest 1237 from the office till.
and that Wakelin did nothing wrong. frst three Rhodesian Governors by Observation record record
Pisco of
"Star" ferry on June 17, had not been WL W.L
17/7 10/7 proved. Defendant wIR therefore Both men were about bft. sins, tall. Merrington Brothers, the employers the same sculptor.
West River at
discharge, asked for petrol is of Evans, had no responsibility, as it
Wuchow +24.20----0,70-4 3.00 + 501 Sir William Llewellyn, president of West River at
The case had been heard in Shishing +11.00 Q +2.00 +1.00 camera, and the Han. Mr. Leo build, in a dark suit, white collar, no to be travelling in the lorry,
D'Almada, Jr., instructed by Mr. M. an appeal for the preservation of the statues, and as a protest Mr. Richard North River at
Tsingyuen +8.20 0 +1.75 +2.00 A, da Silva, appeared for the Sicker! resigned his membership of
0.41 −132 + 35+ sa fence, while the prosecution was in Bhashul the Academy.
at
hands of Detective-Sub- Bheklung + 4,73 -0.82
Inspector. L. R. Whant.
The one who
described as well-spoken, medlum was against their orders for McNally the Royal Academy, refused to sigaj North River at
'hat.
The other was thin, pale, with thin
andy hair brushed straight back.
"The only person left to compensate this unfortunato widow and her children is Evans," added the judge,
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