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Woman Driver BULGARIA Charged When CABINET
Railwaymen Sergeant Hurt CRISIS
Stuck To Posts Despite Danger Big British Investment
Case Adjourned While DRASTIC CHANCES
Police Recovers
Mins V. Allen, of Kennedy Road, was to-day charged at the Central Magistracy with having driven a car in Island Road, at Repulse Bay, with out due care and caution on January 18. She was represented by Mr. D. B. Evans who pleaded not guilty on her behalf.
à result
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EFFECTED
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Armed Robber Faces Police: Gun Misfires
Two Accomplices Escape Pursuers
Turco men, two armed with revol- vers, gained entrance to the flat under the pretext of being window repairers. The men proceeded to to an umah and the monk with ropes, and covered them with a blanket.
Sofia, Jan. 24. A daring armed robbery took place The Bulgarian Cabinet crisis. to-day about 7 n.m. at the residence which has been simmering during of a Chinese monk, named Wan Chai, recent months, became dramatically of No. 4 Tai On Terrace. One of the open to-day when King Borla drop-robbers, who was captured, attempted
General to fire on his pursuers, ped bin. "Strong Man," Lukov, from the post of War Minister, and appointed General Daskalow, commander of the Plevmo garrison to position of lender of the Cabinet, the Other changes wero also an nounced, and political circles are of the opinion that the crisis, which is specially signicant in view of coming election, is not yet over.
It is stated that personal rivalries It into two camps, led to the decl- inside the Government, which split sions, which represent defeat of the group which had been pressing for the return of a more democratic rule, and the restoration of the Constitu- tion.
Apparently King Doris, at any rate for the time being, decided in favour of the status quo.-Router,
the
They then left the dat with a suil- case of clothing, a watch and some muncy.
JANUARY.
1938.
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Shanghai, Jan. 15. The unsung heroes of the war
Applying for the hearing to be is the description applied in an adjourned sine die, Traffle Inspector official Chinese report on the S. C. Saunders said that the summons work of the railwaymen of the was taken out against Miss Allen as of an aceldent in Island country who, it is stated, have Road when a truffle sergeant, who lived up to their motto of "Die was on a motor cycle, was knocked with the railroads." They have down and seriously hurt. kept the country's main system take another two months before the Mr. Forrest to-day fined Mr. E. F. of transport operating despite sergeant could be about again, Immense hardships and dangers, Veldhuyzen a total sum of $30 on
It is stated that before hostilities charges of having driven commenced 115,000 employees operat-In Caine Road on the night of January ed 37,500 inlles of line, comprising 10, without a valid licence and with
Michaels.. railway having failed to report an accident to the Guvernment-owned
the police at the earliest possible mo-
Admitting Veldhuyzen offered no excuses;
Trafile-Sergeant B. G. Baker said that after slightly injuring a Chinese man with the car he had been driving Mr. Veldhuyzen did not stop the vehicle: probably because he had not a valid licence. A constable on duty saw the incident and noted the num- ber of the car.
system. In remaining at their pustment..
despite danger, the report declares, they were indirectly defending Bri- tish and other foreign capital tied up in China's railway system which, according to the Ministry of Rallways, $1,500,000,000 at the amounted to end of 1936.
In the first four months of the war, the report proceeda, 130 railwaymen died at their posts. "The death roll been from air raids would have higher if not for the well-built dug- outs at most stations. Many of these shelters were built in the hills and mountains and were bomb-proof.
The Japanese planes come so fre- quently that the routine of railway employees consists partly of rushing In and out of these dug-outs.
"Any part of the rallway system destroyed during the air raids is re- Up to paired with the least delay. the end of October last 100 railway structures, 29 bridges, 810 pieces of rall, 1,210 sleepers were blown up. Yet
destruction wholesale
Japanese since wrought by the November has been a hundred times more devastating.
the
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STAYED TO LAST "Station-masters and other ployees working on the sections of the line immediately behind the fighting zones only withdrew in the TOUP of train carrying the last evacuees. Sometimes there was no Inst train," the report adds.
motor car
the offences
ANOTHER CASE
A few minutes after the departure of the robbers, the victims managed to free themselves. Rushing out to the verandah, they shouted for help. Their crles attracted the attention of two constables and a detective, who were just about 50 yards from the scene.. Two of the robbers made their escape, but the third man faced the police and pulled the trigger of SEVERAL CHANGES
his revolver several times, but it did not fire. He was arrested. Sofia, Jan. 24.
Yesterday the landlord of the fat..Les Several Cabinet changes have been made is a result of internal dissert was asked to paint the window panes, sign, M. George Manelf has replaced and apparently the robbers heard of the Minister of Education. M. Alexan-this, and mode, their entrance to the der Nicoaleff, who in turn has re-
The watch and $20 in money were placed M. Ivan Krasnovsky, Minister of the Interior. The former Interior recovered. Minister has replaced General Ivan Lukov the War Minister, who
The afternoon of February 4 was the day fixed by Mr. Forrest for the resigned United Prep. hearing of the summons against Mr. So Kal-chot who was accused of hay- ing driven a private car in Hennessy Road, Wanchal, on January 12, with- out due care and caution. Mr. So was also defended by Mr. Evana, who turned in a ples of not guilty.
Dentist Seeks Damages From Bus Company
Resulting from a traffic accident in Queen's Road East, when a bus of the China Motor Bus Co. crashed
dentist's Into
shop, a claim for damages
by Ho Yat-yu, dentist, It is also pointed out that numbers of railways have fallen into the hands against the Bus Company, was heard before the Puise Judge, Mr. Justice of the Japanese entirely. They are: the Pelping-Mukden, Peiping-Sul-B. E. Lindsell, at the Summary Court yuan, Tsinan-Tsingtao, Chengting- Talyuan, Nanking-Shanghai, Shang- lini-Hangchow, Ningpo, Soocholy and Kashing railways,
A good part of the Peiping-Han- kow and Tientsin-Pukow railways is invading of the also in the hands forces--Reuter,
Lovely Actress Found Dead
Police Convinced
Of Suicide
Brookville, N.Y., Jan. 24. Rosamond Pinchot, beautiful 32 year-old actress, clad in un evening gown and fur coat, was found dead from carbon-monoxide poisoning in her automobile in a garage on the estate of Mr. F. H. Alexander, which she had rented.
Police said that it was a case of suicide, possibly committed as a re- sult of marital troubles, as the dead woman was alternately reconciled and estranged from her husband. Willian Gaston, the playwright, and Aler in the World War.-United Presa.
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MORE MOTORS IN BRITAIN
London, Jan. 24. The road vehicles census for the final quarter of last year gives new Information based representative samples from four typical areas. This Information relates to the age of Heensed vehicles, and the general in- dication is that about one third of the vehicles in use were five years
or over. The
al number of private cari licensed totalled 1,798,105, representing an In- crease of 103 per cent, over the figure for 1028, and comparing with 1,042,- 850 In the final quarter of 1936. The most notable increase was in glit cars of the 10 horse-power class,
New registrations for the whole of 1037 numbered 468,200, an increase of 30,930 over 1938.British Wire-
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A further flim showing the joys of touring in Indo-China was shown between noon and I p.m. to-day at the Queen's Theatre in connection of Tonkin Art with the Exhibition and Handicraft at the Frunch Bunk
The text of the petition which the Bullduing from the views of the
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It is doubtful whether the League
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Pipes of Pan Arcady is Ever Young Eastern hill stations. Through the
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Then on to Saigon which was like no other place in Asia. It had been compared to a French town of the
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bottles of medicines lost or smushed, into discussion of the thorny ques-with rickshas as well as cars, and its Tenor).
tlon, but possibly the matter may be population was a conglomeration of referred to comunission-Reuter all the brown. white and yellow Special.
and costs.
Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared for plaintiff, while Mr. W. A. Mackinlay was for the defendant company.
Outlining the case, Mr. Silva sald that shortly after 8 a.m. on October 27 last year, motor bus No. 041 was proceeding along Queen's Road East in a westerly direction. The road apposite plaintiff's shop, No. 143 Queen's Road East, was torn up-nn the north side, and only half the road, on the south side, was open to
traffic. The appropriate danger
signals were in view, and there was a small heap of gravel on the south side.
The open portion of the road was sufficiently. wide for, a bus to pass without touching the gravel, but No. 611 ran over the gravel, skidded for some distance, mounted the ment and
crashed
into pla shop, which was one of several that had no verandah pillars in front. Two pedestrians were injured. Just before mounting the pavement, the driver was seen to be standing up in his seat, and was therefore not in a position to bave full control over his vehicle.
GILT-EDGED HOLDINGS STRONG
London, Jan. 24. Strength of glit-edged securities was an outstanding feature of the London Stock Exchange to-day, but otherwise the market was generally dull, apart from support for German and Japanese bonds."
Indian irons were weak owing to eastern selling, and coppers cased on disappointing Roan Antelope results, but at the close the prices were above the day's low.
Commodities and base metals again cased owing to lack of support. Wall" Street was irregular.-Reuter Special..
VACCINATION POST
races.
A feature of the city was the noon- Line siesta. office hours being from 7.30 to 11.30 am. from 2.30 to 0.30 p.m.
10.10 Burn's Night Dinner Speech. Sir Atholl MacGregor introduces. 10.15 His Excellency The Gover- nor, Sir Geoffrey Norflicote.
10.40 London Relay-A Recital of Burns' Songs.
11 p.m. Close Down.
Ye Banks and Brass; John Ander- A journey to Ankor was well worth
son, My Joe; Braw Braw Lads: the trip, continued the lecturer.Whistle and I'll Come to You; My Once it was possible to reach the city Heart Is Sair: Ca' the Yowes to the only by boat, a tedious journey of Knowes; A Rosebud by my Early five-days-but-now-well-made roads Walle made the pilgrimage to the famous ruins a real delight. Although Anker was "discovered" some 60 years ago,
stili remained
mystery. Archaeologists averred that for some unexplained reason, the inhabitaats of its wonderful towers moved out into the jungle one day and the jungle then advanced and slowly covered it with verdure for a period of 500 years.
it
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Ankor-Vat, with towers easily surmounting the highest palms, was another peep into antiquity that the tourist in Indo-China could not afford to ignore.
WIDOW FAINTS AT CLIPPER
`NICARAGUAN CANAL PLAN DISCUSSED
Washington, Jan. 24. President Franklin Roosevelt con- ferred to-day with Representative Izuc, author of a bill to authorise Immediate construction of a Nicara-, guan Canal,
Mr. Izac said that President Roost- velt adopted a "very sympathetic and chcouraging attitude, and showed the keenest interest in the bill as a mea- sure of national defence."
He said that President Roosevelt
statements to the police. He first The St. John Ambulance Brigade MEMORIAL RITES favours the Nicaraguan route over
DRIVER'S STATEMENTS
The driver had later made several.
he attempted sald
to avoid two small boys who ran across the road, will place a vaccination post at the station of the Peak and bad thus mo
Upper Level mounted the pavement und crashed into the shop. He next Tramway as from to-morrow, it was said he attempted to dodge an old announced to-day. woman, and finally stated that he | was not attempting to dodge anyone, but hnd run over the gravel and mounted the pavement.
smashed. Their total cost was $24. Two scis of dentu plates were. broken, and ench cost $45, while one was missing.
Traffic-Sergeant M. Clark said he arrived at the scene of the accident about
8.45 4.171. The pavement Two glass signs, and n, signboard where the bus had mounted was were smashed, and the cost of re- about five or six feet wide, walle the placement was $105.00. Four sets part of the road left open for truffle of gold plates were lost, each worth was from 15 to 18 feet wide. The $30. Witness was therefore claiming bus itself was approximately seven a total of $450. Previous to taking two letters feet six inches wide. Witness noticed action, he had written
Bus two piles of granite chippings in the demanding payment from the centre of the roadway, each about Company. three or four inches high. That part of Queen's Road East was a con- trolled area, with a speed limit of
20 miles per hour. Even if the bus Hol-chaus, sald he saw the bus crash-
the chanica
over
the
LETTER WRITER'S. STORY A professional letter-writer, Muk had been travelling slowly, it might
Info plaintiff's shop. Before the skidded if it ran have
crash, witness caught a glimpse of heaps of granite chippings, and the driver, and noticed he WOR of skidding would standing up in his sent. There were
had been
not many people in Queen's Road Witness did not East at the time. notice whether two small boys or an old woman run across the road prior to the accident, No. 149 Queen's Read East, a shop east of plaintiff'E, had ila signboard broken when the bun commenced skidding and hit al
be enhanced if the bus travelling foster.
· PLAINTIFF ON STAND
Bomb. Thrown The
In Foreign Settlement
Shanghai, Jan. 29.
The plaintiff, Ho Yat-yu, next gavo evidence. He said he was Just about to get out of bed when the bus crashed into his shop. He heard the crash, and on going out to investigate, found the bus hard up against the front of the shop. The engine was still running, but stopped about half a minute later.
Witness and a glass show-care in the front part of the shop, and in this A number of men and women, all were 18 pairs of forceps. Three Chinese, were injured last night were lost us a result of the crash, when a hand grenade was thrown at while two were damaged beyond re- the offices of the Social Evening pair. They were made in Germany News, a Chinese daily newspaper and Americs, and cost about $0 each. published in the Settlement, The | There were also 48. airtight jars, with #bomb-thrower escaped-Reuter; stoppers, and these were completely
Li Yuet-ching, a married woman, who lived opposite plaintiff's shop, said, the bus was travelling foster then usual. When the bus hit the pavement, she saw the driver stand- ing up in his seat.
His Lordship said the obvious im- driver was plication was that the jerked up from his seat when it hit the pavement.
Witness added that she saw no-one run across the road.goods A
The hearing was adjourned until 10 am. on February 16.
San Francisco, Jan. 24. Mrs. Musiek, wife of Captain Musick, commander of the ill-fated Samoan Clipper, collapsed ini the Mayor's off
office shortly before an im- pressive memorial service for the Samoan Clipper victims.
Physiclans revived the stricken
i widow, who then stood among 1,500 people, while the Mayor eulogised and his crew.- Captain Musick United Press.
Japanese Seize
More Väluable S'hai Property
Shanghat, Jan. 25, The Japanese military, suihori- ties have informed the Shanghai Alunicipal Police that they are taking over the Continental Bank, which controls the Bridgo, Houso Apartments, as well as the Bank of China, which controls the Asla Hotel
Aloth, buildings are situated in -Japanese-occupied territory north of Soochów, Creek, The Asia ..Hotel is believed to be registered
to Hongkong.
The Japanese authorities have asked "foreign residents at Bridge Flouse apartments to remove Heir possessions.--United Press.
CUMBERLAND RETURNS
11.M.S. Cumberland returned to harbour this morning from exercises,
the suggested new sea level Panama route, because he estimated that it would be 54 hours shorter.
However, Nepresentative Izac od- mitted that the President declined to commit himself na to whether at what time he would begin construction of the Nicaraguan Canal,---United Press.
SWATOW RICE SHORTAGE
Canton, Jan. 25,
A consignment of 6,000 bags of rice shipped in two steamers is en route to Swatow, from Canton to re- lieve the acute rice
there. shortage Swalow for some time has been facing a rice shortage
and quently prices have soared making it dimcuit for the people to purchase their staple food. Within a day two another few thousand bags will be shipped to Swatow-Reuter,
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ROLLED WIDOW HAWKER
or
A young Chinese unemployed, named L Lan, was aned $40, with the alternative of a month's impri- sonment at the Central Magistracy this morning for the theft of nine handkerchiefs from a hawker, Fung Hp, widow, at Wellington Street, yesterday,
RESIDENCE ROBBED
Mr. J. Randall, of Austin Road, has reported to the police that some #tolo from la realdence, clothing, jewellery and a camera, the total value being $150.
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