THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
JANUARY THURSDAY,
Morro Castle Captain Faces New Disaster STICKS TO SINKING SHIP
Refuses A Place In Only Lifeboat
New York.
William F. Warms, acting captain, who refused to leave the burning liner Morro Castle in which 134 people lost their lives three years ago, to-day refused to leave the cargo ship Cauto-of which he is'second officer-aground in a gale off Puerto, México.
tried 10 Ward Line's the ship caught There are lives
Three years ago they make him leave the Morro Castle when fire. le said, "No. to be saved.
make him To-day they tried to leave the Ward Line's Couto (3,571 tons) In the only lifebout that could be launched.
Worms Instated on standing by Captain Paul Peterson crew had been rescued,
until
ALLEGED FRAUD BY SON
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when the father returned to the country in connection with the Ching the Ming Festival, as was his invariable itt. Dated January 18, 1937 the The lifeboat was launched. Angeynote purported to be an acknowledg- sens flung it, on The rocks. Calefment by accused that he had bor- a woman Oficer Harrison, who took the play rowed the money Trom Warms might have had, was drowned. humed Tam Shek-shi; interest and prinelpal to be paid at the end of six months. -
HOLDS WERE FILLING
.
The Cauto was running for Puerto to shelter from a northerly gate when the grounded on a breakwater, Her decks were awash, her holds began to fill.
The men spent a night on board the sinking ship. At dawn, Warms and other officers tried to links the
ship to the shore by breeches buoy They failed.
Mexicon authorities tried to send
out rescue boats. Sens heuvy.
were
too
ten
Later, another lifeboat took men safely ashore. They reported thirty-eight officers and men still on board. Among them was Warms.
INTERVIEW IN SOLICITOR'S
-OFFICE
STAR FERRIES HAVE GOOD YEAR
Continuing, Mr. Williams said that on January 27 last year, accused, together with Tam and one Lain
The "Star" Ferry Company, Cheung-ghi, went to the office of Mr. Les D'Almeda, Sr., and there
mited, report that, subject to interviewed an interpreter Muk Chi-fung. Lam did most of the audit, the amount at Credit of Pront talking at the interview and he was and Loss Account for the year ended alleged to have stated that accused 31st December 1937 is:
named
yas the manager of the Yee Hoj
Dividend paid at $2.00 Arm, which, Counsel' contender, was less amount of Interim not true as he had then left thei
per share business The Arin was alleged to have oyed Tam $1,400 on two noles and the interpreter was asked to The amount brought for- take proceedings to have part of the
ward from the year due by the Royal Navalį
1936 being
SPECIAL EMPIRE Recreation Club to the Yee Hop
CABLES
£2,000,000 RAILWAY
firm transferred to the woman.
Later, on the instructions of Tam; the interpreter proceeded to issue a writ against, accused and the Yee
U.S. COMMODITY PRICES
LATEST CABLED
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New York, Jan. 19. The following quotations on the New York commodity exchange are $157,024.78 issued by Reuter:
100,000.00 March $297,024.78 May
10,828.00
July October Dreember Spot
the total now available
for distribution is $313,852.78
This Company has benefited from
New York Colton
Opening Closing
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8.40/47
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8.08/68
8.02/62 8.72/72
8.50 The First Notice Day for March Cotton is Feb. 23 with Delivery date March 1.
New York Rubber 14.88b/00a
Hop firm. The writ was delivered the abnormal condition which existed March
15.01 /01
15.00b/14a
15.27 /27
14.85b/90a 15.006/01 15.00b/144 15.215/25 15.42 /42
Sales for the day:-1,050 tons.
on April 9, and Counsel suggested in the latter part of 1937. that accused must have known about forthcoming
as he went to the firm on that Shurcholders the Directors will re- Sept dny, even though he had nothing commend appropriations as follows:-December mare to do with the business. He To pay a Final Dividend
of $3.75 per share waited there for about two hours
To carry forward and the whit was served on him.
at
the May
Yearly
Meeting
of July
$300,000.00
13,852,78
May $313,852.78 July
Chicago Wheat
96%/96% 00/00%
Sept.
Tuesday's Sales:-
CONTRACT
Cape Town. Forty-four main-line express en- gines are to be built for the South North the African Railways by
The case was heard on April 10, British Locomotive Co. of Glasgow.| The contract figure is £500,000, when accused consented to judgment, An order worth £1,308,000 for 110 representing he was the managing engines
German partner of the firm. The money not has gone to the firms, Henschel and Sohn and the being paid by April 24, the inter-
preter wrote Berliner Maschinebau,
was received by the The German fems submitted the firm, which
letter to the Yee Hop FINED FOR ANCHORING
SAMPAN NEAR CABLE July
lowest tenders, the British firm be- father, who, however, paid no atten-
ing about six un the list.
May
Sept.
054/05% 80/00% 00%/89
17,722,000 bushels.
Chicago Corn 60/00% 60%/60%
00%/004
00/00%
60%/60%
Winnipeg Wheat
124/124% 124/124.
-1174/11744 101/101
EXCHANGE RATES
tion to it. In response to a telephone Subsidiary orders for roller bear-message, the father later went to the
For anchoring her boat within the inga, valued at £100,000, bring the interpreter who showed him the figures-of-the-total-railway-contract.promissory note. He found the chop Tai Kok Tsui cable area yesterday, May on.it was false, and as a result he Chan Mut, 23, mistress-of-n-smail July to nearly £2,000,000,
Chair of Fine Art.-Mr. Edward refused to pay the money.
junk, was fined $10, or ten days im- Oct. Roworth, the South
Sometime in June, the interpreter, prisnament when she appeared be African land-
Cmdr. G. F. Hole, Harbour scape and portrait painter, has been on lustructions, took out a garnishee fore appointed Professor of Fine Art and order to have the money owed by Master. In the Marine Court this
the R.N.R.C. to the Yee Hop firm morning. Director of the Michaells School in the University of Cape Town, in paid into Court. The place of John Wheatley, who
of Mr. was appointed to the Chair In 1925.
Caned Boy Inquiry. The report of the commission of Inquiry into the caning of a 17-year-old white youth, Duffus Bissett, at Nkana, Northern were instituted and accused was Rhodeals, exonerates the authorities, arrested on October 21. When form- The youth had been sentenced by ally charged, he asked that the inter- the local court to four cuts with the preter and Lam be arrested, saying MADRID AGAIN UNDER Oslo. cane for insuling a native, and the they had taught him to do such a incident produced an outburst of thing.
order Was Lance Sergeant Wheeler sald de- made absolute, and accordingly the fendant was dredging thirty yards Parls.. Club paid the money. The father within the cable area. anly knew of this when he went to the Club and asked for payment. As a result the present proceedings
public feeling. The report atatos Mr. W. 11. C. Bourchier. Balliff, that, contrary to general opinion, no testified having served the writ an natives were present when sentence accused, and Sergeant T. Mackay gave evidence of taking photos of was carried out.
the promissory note.
The case is proceeding.
Mr. Hawariat Leaves Kenya-Mr. Tekla Hawarlat, who was Abyssinian Minister in Paris until the outbreak of the Abyssinian war, has left
Aden
after receiving Mombasa for ometal intimalion that he would not be allowed to settle permanenly in Kenya.
Canada
20, 1938.
THESE PIGS WERE ALSO REFUGEES
Adfugees om the war-torn arcas are saving their bacon in this instance by taking their pigs along with thom.
BABY IS HEIR TO £9,000,000
New York..
When she renounced her Ame- rican citizenship last week Coun- Less Haugwitz-Reventlow Bar- bara Hutton, the heiress-signed documents which made hier twenty-month-old baby. Lance, heir to the bulk of her £9,000,000 fortune.
The countess, How Danish, took these measures because Danish law provides that a wife's property, unless otherwise specl- fied, becomes the joint property of husband and wife.
Of the documents slie staned, one specifies that her property is to remain her own during her life-time; the other is a new will making her baby the heir.
In Congress recently Repre- sentative Allen Treadway urged a 100 per cent. income tax an who estates of rich Americans marry foreigners.
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Boycott Movement In South Seas
Hankow. Jan. 20,
A boycott movement against Japan
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a Arm of bond dealers, will continue of which shipping of Japanese plece
to live in his present home, and will goods to the islands has been aus-
go dally to his office in the Toronto pended, a message received here: Star building.
Premier
states-Central News,
of
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