THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1937.
At the Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in Berlin, Mr.
FASTEST
EVER BRITISH
TRAIN'S
SHIPS'
SALVAGE
DUTY AT SEA
DISPUTE PROBLEM
FOR LORDS
"Suppose there is a ship in great peril of sinking and there is another vessel standing by, is the position to be that the master of the vessel standing by will say: 'I refuse to lend you a
Thomas J. Watson of Amerlen, well-hand because I shall not even known in industrial circles, WOW elected the new President for the
next two years.
Barrie's Birthplace For Nation
get my expenses"?"
This question was asked by Lord Macmillan in the House of Lords recently.
He was hearing an appeal to devide whether Mr. Justice Buckmill and the
Court of Appeal were right in holding that the owners of a vessel which ad performed salvage services are not entitled to be paid for those ser vlees. because they owned another vessel which was partly to blame for the collision that caused the injured vevsel to require rulvage services,
"DISASTROUS "
A well-known British philan-
Lord Atkin's comment on the ques- thropist has offered to purchinsetion put by Lord Macmillan was: Sir James Barrie's birthplace at "It is disastrous." Kirriemuir-the "Thrums" of his stories--and present it to the nation. the News Chronicle was informed recently.
A white-washed cottage in Brechin Road, with its washhouse, was the setting for Barrie's first theatre.
Sir Lacon Threlford, the chartered accountant. is the owner, and his secretary slated:
"Only sentimental reasons, and not the purchase price, are holding up acceptance of the offer."
"It has been suggested that a national fund, -known as the Peter Pan Fund, might be set up, and the philanthropist has no wish to Interfere with any such plan.
"He felt that Barrie's birthplace must remain In the country. Sir Lacon has already retused an Ameri- can offer."
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The appellants were the Canadian Paelle Railway Company, owners of .. Benverford, and they asked the House of Lords to reverse the decj- sions of Mr. Justice Bucknifl and the Court of Appial
The respondents were the Hindus stan Steamship Company, Ltd., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, owners of the 5. Kafiristan.
Lord Atkin said he was much im- pressed by the matter as it had been put by Lord Macmillan because, in these days of wireless, it was usual to send out calls to all ships request- lag them to come to the assistance of a vessel in distress.
If the first vessel to come up was one owned by the same company as
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114 M.P.H. DASH SALE
J
World Record
Falls to £30,000 Coronation Scot
By H. de Winton Wigley
London, June 30.
In the Coronation Scot, the new London Midland and Scottish streamlined express, I have to-day travelled faster than any railway passenger has ever before travelled in the British Empire.
On the first test run of this blue and silver luxury train from Euston to Crewe we reached a speed of 114 miles an hour. The previous Empire record was made by the L.N.E.R. Silver Jubilee express near Essendine last sum of Count and Countess Haut August with a speed of 113 miles an hour. Reventlow. He Is only eighteen monitis old and heir to the Woolworth millions. He is one of the richest
The above picture shows the baby
children, in the world.
190 Eton Boys Withdrawn
Infection Feared
London, July 2 Elon College authorities last night Istoted that 190 boys have been withdrawn from the college by their parents because of a case of infantile paralysis, the disease which crippled President Rosevelt.
The boy who contracted the Blness has been in isolation at the Eton sanatorium since June 21, and no new case has since been reported.
Parents were told, however, that boys could be withdrawn if it was thought desirable,
another of two ships in peril through and I cannot afford to render this a collision, it would be disastrous if service because I may not be paid the captain of the ship that had come for it."
up to help was to say: "No; one of
On the return journey from Crewe to Euston, with the colossal overall speed for the 158 miles of 80 miles an hour, the Coronation Scot established a world record for steam locomotive speed over that distance.
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The Coronation Scot, which has burst straight out of Crewe works into the records, has been "running herself in" for only a month, and Tom Clarke, of Crewe, her 63-year-old driver, told me he believes that when she works "looser" she can equal the world top speed record of 124 miles an hour held by a German steam locomotive.
Tom, covered with oil and grime through which we could see his happy sinile, came over to the hotel at the 'ond of the run with his fireman, Jack Lewis, of Crewe, and had tea with the |vice-president of the L.MS., Mr.
E. J. H. Lemon.
COULD HAVE DONE BETTER
While the admiring waller prot- fered tea and cakes into the oily hunds. Tom said to me, "We could have done more, I could have done the return journey in an hour and 50 minules, knocking nine rninutes off what we actually did do, but for the speed restrictions.
Over 100 curves on the route have been specially re-aligned or recanted for the Coronation Scot, but one of ;
the ships in collision is a sister ship The appeal was adjourned until Tom's restrictions was that he was of mine, under the same ownership, the next day.
DOMESTIC
DOW
SQUABBLE
WHOSE FAULT-BINE OR MY HUSBAND'S ? Somehow when we waze first married John'a little habits. didn't worry me, but now...
You used to
Stop. John, I hata
you dabbing me with your shaving brush-it's not funny!
Oh! Mary! Has your Charles irritating
Tittle habits that, -drive you mad
?-too? Honestly1.30
don't thinki can stand
it much
fonger
be amused at
it once, you
know!
...Yes I do wake up feeling I've only had
few hours sleep.doctor.
Good heavens, every man's got little habits and mannerisms. I'm sure wa all have, you know I really
think...
That seems to be the
¿ trouble. You go on using up energy all night, if this isn't replaced, you wake up tired and never catch up, so to speak-result- Night Starvation. You get irritable, fussy, short-tempered.
| advise you..
SIX WEEKS LATER
It's years since
wwe went for a walk
in the country
darling-just like
old times isn't it?
...and I'm enjoying
every minute of it.
Gosh! Perhaps I do get upset easily.I feel
so nervy and run down
For goodness sako stop poking that fire f You get on my nerves!
All right..!
these days. I might see
a doctor as Mary suggested.
Horlick's!
(50 that's what the doctor recommended!
You can't get any fun out of life if everything I'gets on your nerves. In itself, that's a sign that you haven't the energy to cope with even trivial things. Probably you're not replacing, while you sleep, the energy used up -- Night- Starvation, in fact.
Make your sleep effective with a regular cup of Horlick at bedtime. Horlick's
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LORD NUFFIELD
AGAIN
£146,500 FOR HOSPITAL
Lord Nuffield has become miles an hour through Watford tun- Birmingham's fairy god- nel to-day.
father.
Here is a brief diary of the trip:
Four miles after leaving Euston With a cheque for
reached 80 m.p.h. Through Willes- den at 65 and Wembley at 70.
£146,581 he has brought the
In the first hour we covered nearly first part of the city's
75 miles. That blur was Stalford,
and now for the fastest time of all. £1,250,000 hospital centre
Ninely! Ninety-five! A hundred fund near completion, and and twelve and more made it possible to open it
Crewe, free of debt.
A hundred between Stafford and Crowe! Not far from Whitmore, closo the British record captured with 114
m.p. We kept that 112.5 m.p.h. A few weeks ago Captain J. C. for one mile, and for five miles we Stone, organising secretary of
the fund, was asked by Lord Nuffleld's secretary for informa-
hurtled along at 108.5 m.p.h.
RESTAURANT JUGGLING
And at these speeds a restaurant tion of the amount needed to stuff was practising and experiment complete the nurses' home and Ing with tea and soup serving. They college of nursing.
told me it was cosy.
The return journey. Renched 100 m.p.h. Just north of Wolverton. The 674 miles trom Welton to Wembley covered at overall speed of 89 miles an hour. Nearly 100 miles an hour |through Harrow and Greater London. Intense excitement. Two hours? Yes; Euston tunnela and smoky Euston itself in one minute inside two hours.
Captain Stone replied that the sum required was £140,531.
By return of post he received an ordinary business envelope. It came from Lord Nuffleld, with cheque for the amount named and a short noto of explanation.
Shortly after the fund was opened I learned to-day that the Corona scribed £52,000, and his latest gift six years ago Lord Nuffield sub- tion Scot locomotive-there are five brought his total
for them-cost £10,000 each. The nearly £200,000.
train, with its costly woods ond
contributions
to
furnishings, cost another £20,000. Lord Nuffeld's total benefactions to Our load to-day of eight coaches was many projects are now estimated at 203 tons, exclusive of engine.
£8,000,000.
LOVED, LOST, SHOT
DEAD IN AFRICA
Liverpool, July 2. WEALTHY twenty-seven-year old Mr. Edward Litler- Jones, who was found shot dead in an hotel at Paarl, near Capetown, South Africa, to-day had gone abroad to for- get a girl he had loved and lost,
He has died six thousand inlica Irom home on the eve of the sale
of Gatencre Hall, near Liverpool, the |BLIND MAN
| eighteenth-century
mansion
he
ị bought a year ago to live in when The was married,
Mr. Litler-Jones was tall, falt-
IS ACCUSED
haired, good-looking, youngest mem- OF MURDER
ber of Liverpool City Council, managing director of a jam factory here, owned by his mother, who lives In Bournemouth.
He fell in love with a London girl, spent a fortune on almost priceless furniture. Antique collecting 15 his hobby.
Alexander McMillan, blind and aged forty-two, was remanded at the Northern Glasgow Pollce Court recently accused of murdering his stepdaughter, Elizabeth Russell, aged wife Annie, aged forty-two. ten, and attempting to murder his.
I was stated that the woman and girl were found in their home at Then. Inst Christmas, the girt sald Wigton-street, Glasgow, suffering she could not marry him.
from gas poisoning. The girl died a
He left for South Africa in Feb-few hours later. runry for a six months' holiday.
ni the
hall, sold
to-
Mrs. Lliter-Jones, his mother, | gardener visited the hall to-day, want to ¦ night: "It is a dreadful shock. sleep ̃ät ́an holel here to-night
"Twice he brought his Indy to 'unaware of the tragedy..
look over what he wanted to be Mr. Henry Ashcroft, groy-haired their home."
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