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THE HONGKONG
Joy Riders "Borrowed" 23 Motors
Two-Month Count
In Kowloon
That no less than 23 cars had been "borrowed" by joy riders in Kowloon during January and February was revealed at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when a soldier in the Middlesex Regiment appeared before ite had Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen. taken a car belonging to a police
Interpreter.
TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, MARCH
1938
ASAMA MARU AFLOAT
SAI WAN BAY
SALVAGE FEAT
Students' Association
Makes Plans
Busy Year Planned
By Growing Body
which went apbore below | scheme of future
hand-
and
The Walt Yan Past Students' Association, born over three years ago, held its monthly Council Meeting Japanese salvage experts have Thursday evening at the offices of just completed one of the greatest Messra. Tal Woo-hing, when Messrs. salvage feats in the history of shipp- Ko Fook-sun (President), Kwan ing in the Pacific,
Man-wal (Hon. Treasurer) and other The soldier, Pte. A Marshall, was
The 10,975 ton N.Y.K. Iner Asami members were preclivities was de- An elaborate 583 charged with (u) driving car without a driver's licence in Nathan
Maru, Road, and (b) driving the car with Lyemoon during the September 2cided upon, and Mr. Tam Sik-poon out the
typhoon, was successfully refloated s
was appointed Chairman of the Sub- permission. He 30 owner's
at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. The ship was Committee of Sports and Socials to pleaded guilty, but was unable to say
days before peak u
out of the he
He said he refloated Ave had done it. Why
equinoctial udes.
undertake the carryment. -recreation - and had never driven a car before.
Preparations for refloating
the gramme
for the current year. The Sergt. Wall stated, that about 40
Asama Mara, which included the Association's official organ, minutes past midnight this morning removal of two of the four sets of some and attractive Journal with both he saw two men going up to a car.
main engines and the blasting away
Chinese and Engl
English articles One of them, the defendunt, got in,
with dynamite of over 7,500 tons of drawings, will be published in
the while the other
pushed, as the battery
rock, were completed on Thursday.
course the of the car would not work.
high tides sel in yesterday the following Editorial Board,
the year, under the As When they got near Pak Hoi Street, they stopped, and the second mun afternoon the vessel was drugged off Messra Joseph Ng (Editor-in-Chiet). Tom Sik-poon, went away. Sergt. Wall went up to gradually by pulling up seven chain Chan Wal-chuen,
cables and steel hawsers attached to Wong Wing-kit and Cheng Fook-chot. the defendant, and asked if he had a
the fore part of the vessel and five The last named was also made the lleenee. Defendant got out of the car
aft lines, the chains and hawzors Director of Propaganda, responsible and ran but was arrested by an
being securely anchored out at sea. for publicity work to further the Indian
Asking for a serious view to be The ship was afloat within half an Association's relations with the pub-
lic. commending the operations. Sub-Inspector taken, Acting
A. Rhour of
Salvage was undertaken by the Brittain said that in January and February, 23 cars in Kowloon had Nippon Salvage Company, under the and had been found personal direction of Captain Miya- been taken, again in all sorts of places, in the saki. Brilish and other salvage ex- New Territories, in Customs Pass and perts in Hongkong stale the refluating at Shamshulpo. The owners and of the Asama Maru constitutes one police had been put to a great deal of the most remarkable successes in of trouble in trying to trace them the history of salvage. again.
Marshall was said to have a good character. He was fined $10 on the first charge and $40 on the second,
Mr. Martin Tso has also been em-
ployed as shroff since February 1 to collect subscriptions, both for mem- bership and for War Relief purposes, but all past students may join the association or forward subscriptions by direct communication with the of Wah Yan College, or any other. Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Kwan Man-wal
Council member.
Special circumstances attended the undertaking of salvage work by a Japanese company, for the Asama Maru went ashore in Sal Wan Bay,
With the ever-increasing number under the guns of Lyamoon forts and of members, the medical work for within a prohibited area, Special War Relief in conjunction with the
STOP PRESS permission was required from the Red Cross Association has made rapid
AUSTRIA ENTERS NEW PHASE
OF EXISTENCE
Vienna, Mar. 12. Austria to-day enters upon a new phase of her existence
D Nazi state and part of the German Reich. As a power with an independen foreign policy Austria has ceased to exist. Deep concern is felt abroad. The French have sunk their differ-
and ences. At Prague
Budapest there is tension. It is beileved Italy hos known for weeks what Hitler contemplated in Austria-Reuter,
BAER DEFEATS TOMMY FARR
New York, Mar, 11. Max Baer, former world champion, outpointed Tommy Farr, British Empire champion, in a 13-round con- lest here to-night.
announced, The winner, it was would probably fight Joa Louis, the negro world champlon.-Reuter.
BROADBENT ON RECORD FLIGHT
London, Mar. 12. The Australian airman, Broadbent, left Lympne at 3 n.m. to-day, plan- ning to reach Australia in under four days.-Reuter.
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EDDIE AVANZI and his
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Every member an artist on his instrument.
WE HAVE ALSO REQUESTED
LEE WONG
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now
British authorities for the Japanese strides and the Association salvage experts to undertake the enjoys * well-earned reputation work, and the NY.K. Line and in this very deserving cause. Nippon Salvage Company have ex- pressed their thanks to the British authorities for their co-operation.
The Asama Maru went ashore in Sai Wan Bay after drifting helplessly in Junk Bay during the height of the September 2 typhoon, when the wind velocity reached a world record of 167 miles per hour.
..
Although the liner went ashore at 4 It was not until daylight that
a.m., her position could be ascertained, and oficers and crew abroad spent an anxious morning.
THREE WOMEN INSPECTORS
OF MUI TSAI
Concurrently with the airing of the mui tsai problem in the House of Commons this week, His Excellency Damage, fortunately, was limited the Governor has appointed throe only to the bottom plates of the ship. { ladies to be Inspectors of mui Isai
MAJOR PROBLEM
In the Colony, Nevertheless, salvage presented a major problem. Abnormál tides such
this morning's as those experienced during the Gazette the appointment to typhoon, could not be expected again positions of Misses Ko Chiau-thim, and the ship had no cargo aboard to Marlon Chan and Jessie Ewing are be jettisoned.
announced,
It was necessary to cut a canal from the ship, hard ashore, to the
sca.
Five days after the Asama went ashore Japanese salvage experts were on the job.
Two salvage lugs, 213 workmen, including 36 divers, were engaged continuously in the work of blasting a channel.
In
Government
these
The appointments are effective from March 0.
RICHARD WHITNEY
ARRESTED
The rock beneath the ship was SO
New York, Mar. 11. solid that dynamite had to be used The Attorney-General has ordered- continuously. Altogether, 25,000 the arrest of Mr. Richard Whitney charges of explosive, weighing 20
grand larceny tons, was used on 200 days, and an
Reuter, area of 22,000 square feet was blast- ed and dredged away.
a charge of,
In addition to two of the main was built at the Mitsubishi Dockyard
tuel engines,
all, deck Attings, in Nagasaki. She had made 46 com- winches, life boats and stores were plote round voyages between Hong- removed from the ship, In an effort kong and the United States. to lighten her.
After temporary repairs have been Ten buoyancy tanks, each of 50 effected in Hongkong the Asama atons capacity, were fitted alongside. Maru will be taken to Japan for The Asama Maru was launched in thorough repairs and overhaul, after October, 1928, and is one of the which she will be placed in service crack liners of the N.Y.K. leet. She again.
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