Saturday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 7, 1939.
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DONALD DUCK
By Walt Disney
THE HOLE'S RIGHT HERE,
UNCA DONALD!.
BOY! WHAT A
SHOT! WHAT A
SHOT!
11-3 WALT DISNEY
ARMY OFFICER IN COURT
Faces Charges Of Causing Death
AS a sequel to an accident in East Coast Road recently, in which two Chinese boys, Sim Kweg Leong and Goh Sah Ngoh, aged 15 and 13 years, respectively, received fatal injuries, Lieut. J. C. Burgoyne-Johnson. of the Royal Artillery, Changi, recently appeared before Mr. L. B. Gibson, in the Criminal District Court. Singe- pore, on two charges of causing death by negligent driving..
The prosecuting officer, Chief Court Inspector MacQuarrie. stated that the deceased and two other persons were walking along the road, near the eighth milestone, on the night of Sept. 26. They were carrying seaweed and were on the left grass verge, going in the direction of town,
A motor-car, alleged to have been driven by the accused, Wan proceeding in the same direction, Apparently, said Mr. MacQuarrie. | there was another car coming from i the opposite direction, and as the; cars were about to pass, the veindej alleged to have been driven by Burgoyne-Johnson, swerved to its left und knocked down the two boys, The boys died in hospital later the same nightL
GOOD BRAKING
Driven Mad
By Village Gossip
CORSHAM (Wil QOON after Mrs. Sawyer WIN Inspector A. E Minns told the drowned under circumstances
court that the car was tested, AL a speed of 20 m.les an hour the car stopped within 23 feet when the
which caused the Wiltshire vinoner. Mr. Harold Dale, to say that,
"Even if Sawyer had no 1-ken
fou brake WIG applied. Th was steps that a normal man might have
good braking.
think be was active
At the caine speed the car pulled done I do not thin
up with. 70 feet on the handbrake
in drowning her.”
Edward
to Sawyer, whom the re being applied, which was fair brak-arks were addressed, vanished. ing.
He was later found wandering, in
i was a powerful car and in his
opinion espable of a maximum speed tatters, and in such a condition That
of more than 60 miles an hour.
Mr. Minns detailed the damage, which was confined to the left s.de of the car.
he has been certified insane.
He is now an inmate of Wiltshire
Mental Hospital at Devizes.
The
So gossip has another vielim. village had been too talkative about
his altairs.
The headlights were also tested. The left Ught, when dipped, threw In a letter to his brother, written n well-focussed beam far ahead.
Following cross-examination
from the Institution, he wrote: muy never see you again. God bless Mr. A. J. Braga und Mr. Richard Taylor, for the defence, the hearing you all. Look after what I have left
behind." was adjourned,
Cane Patch Thwarts Law
Okemah, Okla.
by
Deputy Sheriff Cliff Sullens is trou- !
"He referred to his eight-month-old baby, slaying with his mother, who drew her first old age pension recently.
Prize Dogs Sacrificed
JOHANNESBURG,
South Africa.
One of the youngest kiddies who took part in the races at the K.C.C. Children's Sporis-Kahn,
What Makes Boys Bad?
It looks as though we are on the brink of the solution of that greal national problem-what makes inost boys naughty?
The figures of juvenile delinquency do nei dismay me.
"Before Juvenile courts were bet up, many a pelty infringement of the Recently parents were able to read the reluctance of the adult lo expose law remained unrecorded because of
Reform Bill which-apart from em- rigours of a police court. the text of Sir Samuel Hoare's Penal the child to the procedure and bodying the most far-reaching prison reforms of the lust 100 years--dealt
"Now that it is known that the
with the subject of the young often-child will receive help and guidance der.
Grom the courts there is little hesita-
Many teachers and magistrates cny tion in seeing that he is brought bes that the British boy is not as bad as Core it."
he has been made out to be. He is
as naughty-but certainly no nugh- tier-than his predecessors.
bled with a "cane curse." He bas n Rather than let her five Borzoi warrant to serve on a farmer who dogs, said to be direct descendants lives near a large cane patch. Every of those of the fumer kaiser, fall Bics. Elste Vera Parker, president Ume Sullens goes near the house to into strange hands, Mrs. A. Champ-of the National Union of Teachers, serve the warrant, the man rushes mun of Johannesburg had them pain-sald into the cane field. Now the deputy Jessly killed. The dogs were worth. "I am not one of those who are is awaiting harvest time.
$2,500.
worried about the modern child.
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