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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY
29, 1937.
Nightmares For Months After ALHAMBRA
Being Clawed On Stage
ITALY CAN
BE MOBLISED BY RADIO IN A FEW HOURS
(By Stewart Brown)
United Press Staff Correspondent Rome.
If hostilities should break out in Europe, Italy can be mobilised by rudio within a few hours.
To perfect this "radio mobilisation": the government this year is spend- Ing more than a million dollars im- proving and enlarging fis wireless net-work.
In case of a national emergency the government hopes to be able to reach every hamlet on the peninsula within a few minutes. Orders for the conduct of the people, the mobilisation of the nation's forces will be imparted by radio.
HIS NERVES WRECKED:
UNABLE TO DRINK PROPERLY
To place every italian within con- stant.car-shot of a radio the govern- ment is encouraging the purchase of cheap radio sets, popularly known as "Bullila." The public squares of Crown Prince Olay of Norway every hamlet, town and city are be- who participated in the International Ing equipped with giant loud-speak-regutta races in England, celebrated it on this ocension with his 34th ers by means of which the citizens birthday. A party was held in his will be informed of government pro-honour aboard the Juxury yacht nouncements,
Evadne and the picture shows the Crown Prince cutting his birthday take on the deck of the yacht.
During the Italo-Ethiopian conflict Mussolini twice mobilized the entire nation to listen to Important declara- tions.
From the experience gained}
on these occasions government radio THE CAMPAIGN
An electrician of 21 told Mr. Justice Goddard in the King's Bench Division recently how he had been mauled by a lion on the stage of the Grand Thea- tre, High-street, Croydon.
The electrician was John William
of Guildford-road, be claimed
Musgrove Borrow, West Croydon,
und
damages in respect of his injuries from Croydon Entertainments, Limited, proprietors of the theatre ai the time of the accident in February last year.
After evidence had been given the case was settled on terms that were not disclosed.
"STARING ANIMAL IN FACE" The routing Incident was first described by Mr. R. F. Levy, K.C.,
zuld Borrow's counsel, who
that Borrow, in the course of his employ- ment, wan crossing the stage to test some foollights when he received a blow in his shoulder and felt the lion's claws penetrate his orm and shoulder. "le was a couple of feet from the the benst cage," said Mr. Levy, "and dragged him towards the enge, reared up on his hind legs and brought Borrow into such a position that he was staring the animals in the face. It must have been a horrible experi- ence."
Mr. Justice Goddard: A ghostly experience.
DREAMING OF LIONS Mr. Levy said that Borrow's face was severely lacerated. There were also Incerntions about his neck and Farms.
The severing of a nerve had left him without any feeling in part of his face jand the experience had greatly
affected his nervous condition,
engineers are perfecting the physical FOR SCRAP IRON nervous state.
apparatus for the next mobilization.
IMPORTANCE OF RADIO
The importance the government us- asigns to radio is seen in the recenti creation of a special radio depurt- ment in the Ministry of Popular Cul- ture, formerly the Ministry of Press! and Propaganda. This division or- ganises programmes for internal and foreign consumption.
WHAT IT MAY
YIELD
Rapid Rise In. Steel
Consumption
INDUSTRY SHORT OF RAW MATERIAL
TO-MORROW & SATURDAY broadcast anti-Fascist news. It pre- the collection of old iron.
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He woke up at night dreaming that he was facing Hons and was still in a
The lion was one of 25 which, with 20 snakes and 20 crocodiles, under the direction of a man named Blacaman, formed the attraction at the theatre In the week beginning February 24 last year.
IN CAGES ON STAGE. They were kept in cages on the stage, and the lion was being exercised in a large cage when the mauling oc- curied.
of
The lions were the property Blacaman, and the contract was made between his touring manager and the Croydon Entertainments. Blacaman had gone abroad, and could not be served with the writ.
It intercepts foreign programme to learn what other countries are think- ing and saying about Italy. Another; and more delicate task is, interfer-
The British Iron and Steel Cor-
Mr. Justice Goddard: Has he gone ence with foreign stations whichporation have opened a compaign for
to catch some more lons?
Mr. Levy: I only know he goes By bringing into the market more pares and transmits programmes in of the iron and steel scrap which
abroad. We understand he catches
in practlenily all foreign languages with accumuintes In factories and homes,
bis lons
Abyssinia.
his Borrow, in of combatting and on forms and country estates it
evidence, said he the express purpose
had been ordered to clean the foot- Is hoped to meet the need for nasur- anti-Fascist propaganda abroad.
lights, and to do so had to cross the the Bow of a raw material essen- ing The physical equipment will be tial to one of the nation's largest in- stage. He had to pass between the considerably Increased and improved!dustries, and to assist the steel-
safety curtain. which was down, and the cage in which three or four lions during the current year. A new sto-makers in playing their part in the
were exercising. The space between tion described as the most powerful National Defence programme,
was about three feet. and modern in the world will be Just how much of this scrúp erected of Pravo Smeraldo, outside material there is in the country is not Rome. It will be connected by unknown, but the Corporation is assured that there is a prodigious quantity. derground cables with Palazzo Vene- It is believed, indeed, that half a zia (Mussolini's office), Palezzo Lit-inillion tons or more a year may be tario (beadquarters of the Fascist forthcoming as the result of the cam- Party) and via dell'Impero, the paign that begins this week. nvenue where reviews and demon- strations are held.
MERCHANTS TO CO-OPERATE
The Corporation has been assured The new station will boast two of the co-operation of the scrap Iron transmitters of 100 K.W., two of 40 and steal merchants in every dis- K.W. and a fifth of 50 K.W. They friet, and an appeal is being made to all who have old iron to sell to get will be used to transmit news
into touch with their local dealers. every continent and keep in constant
Ten tons of scrap,
Press repre- contact with the colonies.
sentative was informed will pro- vide about nine tons of finished steel. The stations at Milan, Turin, The amount of steel needed for con- Naples, Genoa and Bologna will be sumption in this country is growing strengthened by additional power and enormously, na the following figures
equipment. Smaller stations show: will be erected at strategic centres. The government also has ordered the construction of a fleet of "radio trucks" which
transmit pro- grammes from out-of-the-way places.;
new
can
Fascist ofciais are of the opinion that the radio will play an important) part in the next war and Italy must be prepared. The genius of Gugilel- mo Marconi, radio inventor, has been placed at the complete disposition of the government.
Examinations For Cabinet Ministers
London, July 10,
In 1929, the boom year, it was 8,000,000 tona.
In 1935, was 8,250,000 tons. Last year, with the revival in trade, it rose to 10,000,000,
This year, with the National Defence Programme in operation, it will be, it is estimated, 11,300,- 000, and about six million tons of scrap will be used to produce 1.
The alternative to remelting old iron collected in this country is to buy more scrap abroad at the inflated prices which have resulted from the needs of countries with no iron re- sources of their own. It is important, (therefore, that the campaign" should
succeed.
THE REDUCTION OF DUTY Satisfaction has been expressed by the industry at the orders that have been issued by the Treasury for re- ducing the rates of duty on certain classes of Iron and steel goods.
will
"I SCREAMED When passing he saw a man taking a bone from a lion in one of the other enges and paused to watch.
"I hesitated a second or so and was about to go on
when
I was struck down on the shoulder and then lifted from the Boor and hit against the exercise cage," Borrow said.
screamed and felt the claws on
my face, car and throat. There was more than one lion-one of them standing on his rear legs and I was turned around to face the lions."
"NOT A BIG GAME HUNTER" Mr. Justice Goddard examined the scar marks which, Borrow said, pre- Vented him from smoking on the left side of his face and holding a cup to his mouth without spilling what it contained.
For months afterwards, he said, he and nightmares and still experienced nervousness.
The Judge: 1 is one of the most horrible cases it is possible to con- ceive. This boy was not a big game hunter to take risks. Here is a boy on a singe mauled by a lion and netu- ally su
the beasts which dangerous.
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MURDER AT PO TOI
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ALLEGED ASSAILANT Yesterday, at the Offices of the
under
MADE FALSE REPORT PERSON WITH UNLICENSED PISTOL DISAPPEARS
Stated to have caused the police District Onleer (South), were related a great deal of trouble and annoy- the circumstances
which ance through making a falso report Leung Kan, 34, a Po Tol boatman, that he had been shot by an un- came to be charged with murder by known person, Chia Min-sang, aged stabbing of Ip Wah, a hawker, on 30, unemployed, appeared on remand the latter's sampan in Po Tol Bay in before Mr. W. Schofield at the Con- tral Magistracy yesterday charged the early morning of June 20.
Tho
opened before Mr. with giving false information to the Detective Sub-Inspector W. N. cer. The Crown was represented by Mr.
Asalatant Attorney Darkin, who prosecuted, said that Wyatt, General,
accused being undefended, defendant reported on July 13 that In his opening. Mr. Wyatt said he had been shot in the arm when the deceased was a hawker walking in Wanchai Road at 8
p.m. with his father on a boat, which they Ho was taken to the Tung Wah sailed from Shauliwan to Po Tol Eastern Hospital where his wound
by a small platol bullet. were
ere turned out to look
G. lion, District OM-police.
that
Mr. Richord Edgedale, for the de-Bay, where the murder subsequently was and was found to have
}fence, submitted that the person Hlable was the one responsible for the con- trol of the animal-and that Blacaman.
was
At this stage dir case was settled.
Railway Crashes In England
took place.
been
The
In the early morning, the elder lp was awakened by a hand pulling for the person responsible, messages aside the tarpaulin covering the were circulated, and everything was awning under which they slept, and dons to find a person with an un- heard the accused, who had row- authorised platol. Some hours later, ed up alongside in his own boat, It was discovered, that defendant had asking to buy some pumpkin. Ip really been shot in a house by nech. roused his son and the latter went dent, and he had told the
police a towards the bows to serve the cus- false story in order to cover, this
up. tomer.
Defendant know the person who A moment later, the elder Ip heard had shot him, but had not given the a scuffle, and an exclamation of pain police any assistance to trace him. uttered by his son as he was stabbed. The person disappeared, and he had The accused sald nothing as he with-no permit to possess a revolver. drew his weapon, a knife, from the A fine of $100 victim's body, and proceeding then
sca
100 was Imposed.
went ashore and reported the mur- Rozeskin, and by Inspector
"There are two reasons for this
to row away in his own boat out to He named two other boatmen at Fo feeling of satisfaction," an authority
Tol as the persons who had informed him of this accusation, but later, If Cabinet Ministers had to pass stated. "The first is that the all-
After being released, Ip Wah over- London, June 28,
balanced
the when confronted with an examination, Sir Thomas Inskip round reduction of duty will not pro-
and dropped into
both these gave a few examples of questions mote any thing like a flood of im- The weekend has been an unhappy water, but managed to hang on to men in succession, was contradicted
one for the Railways. which might be set;
ports, because steel in such quantities available in other countries,
Four people were killed and 12 board by his father
the gunwhale until assisted back on In this statement.
and another The Assistant Attorney General (1) Describe the effect of making but it
presumably help the im injured when a fast train from Ash-boatman who had joined them on proceeded to detail the investigation Mr. Lloyd George Dictator in port of one or two classes of steel ford to Victoria fouled the points at hearing the elder Ip's call for help. carried out in the case by the Assist Spain.
products such as steel bars and bil-Swanley Junction, Kent, and run- (2) What is gold, and how should lots, the shortage of which is affect-ning into a siding, crashed into two Ip Wah died very soon afterwards, ant Director of Criminal Intelligence,
ing certain consumers in this country, trucks shortly before midnight. This and his father and their telend then Mr.
and which led to the no- "And the second reason
why
steel
was on the Southern Railway. (3) When ought Ministers to re-merchants welcome the reduction
der to a village elder. They subsecused being formally charged with In addition nine fully loaded trucks quently went to Stanley and report- the
crime, when he said, in reply algat
that it very deliberately preserves the
ran down a steep incline from an structure of the cartel, the Import LN.ER. goods station
od the affair at the Police Station the charge: "I have nothing to say." on at Carlisle.
The Injury from which death re- (4) What principles ought Prime Duties Advisory Committee's recom- They crashed Into a laden. motor
Acensed Charged
aulted, was triangular wound which Ministers to observe in si mendation being intended to stimulate lorry in a biscult factory yard, badly nouncing the date of a General the flow of imports without in their damaged an electricity sub-station, also turned up at the Station, when heart from the back.
Shortly afterwards, the accused had penetrated the region of the Election.
own words, sacrificing the advantages and four of the trucks finished up in he made a complaint that he had The hearing was adjourned unul of the present arrangements, and, in the middle of a street on the main Sir Thomas added that happily, there was no Civil Service examina-particular, without endangering either route to the Lake district. Nobody the main supplies from abroad or the was injured.Our Own Correspon«, tion for Cabinet Ministers-Our prices of such "supplles":
dent, Own Correspondent,
you use itT
there.
been falsely accused of the murder,to-day.
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