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DEATH IN CAR CRASH
Brake Lining Defect As Possible Cause
The death of Pte. John Jackson, 21, of the 2nd. Bn. Royal Scots, and Yu Sam-mui, a 21-year-old woman, who died as a result. of injuries received in a motoring accident in King's Road, North Point, on the evening of January 14, when the car in which they were riding overturned, was the subject of an inquiry held by Mr. T. J. Houston, sitting as Coroner, at the Central Magistracy yesterday.
The following Jury
em-across the right side of the rond panelled: Messrs. L. V. de Souza across the tram lines, and witness (Foreman), J. A. Gonzales and A. A. [tried to turn it bark. He wrenched Abbas. After hearing the evidence, the steering wheel around' but it did they returned a verdict of accidental not turn the wheels. The car then death.
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overturned, (The accident occurred outside North Point House by the Hongkong Electric Company works).
Dr. P. F. S. Court, of Queen Mary Hospital, sold that a European malt, John Jackson, was admitted to the McGregor said that during the Hospital at 11.45 pan. on January Journey out, he noticed a noise from 11. Jackson was suffering from the engine when in second gear. fractured skull, a fractured right The brakes appeared to him to be arm and many minor abrasions. allright. When the accident oc- When seen by Dr. Court, Jackson eurred, there were no other vehicles was deeply unconscious and showed for pedestrians on the rond. signs of brain injury. He died at 3.15 .m. on January 15,
and
The
Questioned by Mr. Houston, wit- ness admitted that he had not got A post mortem examination wasja local driving licence. held the same day, when the body Shiu Tim, 30, one of the women, was identified by Cpl. S. Dansmore, and Pun Haug, a six-year-old girl, There was a ragged wound nervss both said they went for a drive with the brain, and abrasions down the the two soldiers, but could not say right side of the face; also a simple how the accident occurred.
Kartar fracture of the right forearm
Singh.
proprietor of the left tiple minor abrasions,
Happy
Garage, said the Wh spet car of the skull was fractured and was formerly hired out by him to. the base of the skull also showed at. Winter, who had returned it on frontal fracture. There was exten- January 5. From that day until Five haemorrhage of the left side of January 14, witness had not hired it the brain. The cause of devith, said out to anyone else, as he was using hud tested Pte. McGregor on Janu- intercranial haemorrhage,
Witness also performed a post-lary 13, and found him to be an mortem examination on the body of efficient driver. As far as be way
Sam-mui on January 18. There aware, the
car was in a perfect was extensive abrasion on the right mechanical condition. side of the faco and elbows and a laceration above the right eye. There were no fractures. Internally, the brain showed signs of congestion and swelling. The use of death was concussion of the brain.
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Q.-Which famous tomb in Den- mark is now believed not to contain the body of the man previously thought to be buried there?
A-Thut of the Earl of Both- well. one-time husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. He diedi, Ingine, in Denmark in 1578. Many tourists
have visited the tomb at Faarevile Church, North Zeeland, but ex- perts are to find out if the body is that of the Earl or of a local sheriff. Q-What aren of Britain is planted with trees for timber? A-Five per cent. The Forestry Commission has now planted 400,000 acres, costing £10,500,- 000.
2-Why has the United States Board of Education suspended the making of maps of Europe? A-It is felt that the Central European situation is still un- settled. New German mups show that the Reich has in year added G21 miles to its frontier,
REFUGEES IN KWANGSI (Continued from Page 7.)
A Look Through The "Telegraph"
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Debate on ZBW Relayed Flat Major, Op. 23, No. 8 (Rach-
From Y.M.C.A.
maninof); Prelude in A Minor, Op. 32, No. B (Rachmaninoff).
7.40 Studio-Z.B.W. Orchestra. CHILDREN'S HOUR
Orpheus in the Underworld- Radio Programme Broadcast by line-Gavotte Z.B.W. on a Frequency of 945 k.e's.
Overture (Offenbach); 2. La Crino and on Short Wave from 1-2.16 p.m. and 0-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's. per Singers with Plano; 3. Ballet in
Interval; Because and d'Hardelot). The White (Hanns Loht),
second,
A
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(Willy Ortleb); 2. (Teschemacher
Maestro
A spy who was despatched by the Egyptian Government to the Equa torial Provinces has just returned, having left Khartoum last Christmas, He states that Lupton Pusha is dead, but that the reported surrender of Bahr-el-Ghazal to the dervishes was merely a
H.K.T. ely a rumour, and that the garri-
12-12.20 p.m.
Time, Weather and Announce- Relay of Service of son still holds out.
Intercession from St. John's Cathe-
ment. According to bazaar rumours here dral. the dervishes are concentrating at
8.03 Studio-Z.B.W. Orchestra, 4. Invocation (Manno); Interval: Khartoum prior to an advance on Victor Silvester and His Orchestra.
13.30
Val Rosing (Tenor) and Old Song Memories....Westminster Dongola, The Mahdi has declared
Ballad Singers; 5. that he will
We're Friends Again-Quickstep; "The Mikado" (Sullivan). altack Egypt. Rein- What
Selections from A forcements have left Khartoum fer Silvester and His Ballroom Orches- of die Y.M.C.A. Debate on Z.B.W.'s Night Waltz....Victor 8.30 Relay The Opening Speeches Osman Digna's forces.
tra: A Penny In My Pocket (film:
Programmes. 'Millions in the Air');, Secretary
Little Bayard
Concert Waltzes. advices that the Americans who were Orchestra; The Girl You Used To (Translateur); Jolilty On The Moun
received A Little Lock, A Little Key (Harr
Woods)....Val Rosing (Tenor) with (Strauss): Viennese Singing Birds Tales From The Vienna Woods seized and made prisoners by the Germans in Samoa were immediately Be-Waltz (film 'Mr. Dodd takes the tains released, and that all is now quiel it)....Victor
(Fetros); Silvester
Morning Рарста and His (Strauss)....Marek Weber and His there.
Ballroom Orchestra; Louisiana Fairy Orchestra. Tale (Gillesple and Cools); In A 0.15 Londen Relay-World Affairs." Lille Gypsy Tea Room (Leslie and A talk by The Lord Halley, Burke). Val Rosing (Tenor) with G.S.S.I.. G.C.I.E. Orchestra; There's Money On The
9.30 London Relay The News. Moon To-night-Quickstep; This is My Night To Dream-Slow Fox-Trot
9.50 Orchestra. Doctor Rhythm')....Victor Carmen-Prelude to Act 1 (Bizet); A Night At The Proms; Intro: Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra. Symphony No. 1 in 8 Minor The
Time and Weather,
Unanished"
William 1.03 Film Selections
(Schubert); Tell-Overture
Fingal's (Rossini): "Big Broadcast of 1938"Selection Cave-Overture: Spring (Robin-lainger)....Anton and the delssohn);
Song (Mon- Brandenburg
Concerto
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25 YEARS AGO
Reuter's Berlin correspondent states that it is officially announced that a visit of the Crown Prince to the German Colonies, in Africa being considered, but nothing has yet been settled.
(im
Dr. Court, was a fractured skull and it himself to teach a pupil. Witness does not want to stop with sheltering occupied 18 hours and 20 minutes, Vocal Refrain; "Broadway Melody
yu
for
seven
Driver's Evidence
These, like the other three ships, will
January 13. | Sulte.
On
(Nicolal)....Sir
7 Closing Local Stock Quotations. Gracie Fields with Orchestra; Dance 7.02 Reginald Foort at the Organ
Lover, Come Hack To Me" ('New sten-Swing and Sway-FOX-|
[Trol; You're Moon-Romberg): The King Steps by The Six Swingers directed
step
The Tageblatt believes that the Prince will start in the coming sum- mer, returning to Germany In November. The Princess does not Paramount Theatre Orchestra, Lon-No. 3 in G (Bach); Merry Wives of accompany him.
don, with Al Bollington at the Organ: Windsor Overture "Anything
Goes" Selection (Cole Henry J. Wood Conducting. Reuter's correspondent at Munich
Patricia Rossborough 10 Relay The Summing Up of says the aviator M. Ingold has made Selection.... Louis
"Double Or Nothing" (the Y.ALC.A. Debate on Z.B.W.'8 a record uninterrupted light, which and feeding the refugees in camps.over 1,000 miles being covered.
Levy and His Programmes. Gaumont-British
Symphony with
10.20
Dance Music and Variety. It wants to send the vast number of
of 1936"Selection; "Curly Top Swing-Fox-Trot.....Wille
Dance Orchestra-Swing, Brothers, China's war-stricken people to pro
Lewis! Selection....Louls Levy and The two remaining battleships of Gaumont-British
His and His Orchestra with Vocal Chorus ductive areas so that they, too, may the naval programme for the current Vocal Refrain.
Symphony with by Willie Lewis: Piano-Variations Car Badly Damaged
nctively assist in advancing the coun- anunciat year, the toyol Sovereign:
"Tipperary" 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Judge); Miracles Sometimes Happen (Williams and try's cause. So a survey for land and the Royal Oak, were laid down Weather und Announcements, After formal evidence of going to was made in the province of Hunan, yards respectively on the scene of the accident and dis-
at Portsmouth and Devonport Dock-
Ray 140 Stravinsky-The Fire-Bird Orchestra-Condena-Tango; Viejos Noble).....Renara; Dance covering the unconscious forms of Szechuan, Kweichow, Yunnan, and
Tiempos-Tanga.... Jackson and Yu Sum-mul, by Pollee Kwangst, and at the
Orquesta Tiplea Leopold Stokowski and the Phila- Francisco Canaro with Vocal Refrain; conclusion, be smaller, slower, and less costly delphia Orchestra. Sergeant II. A. McKay, officer-in- 5,500 mow of land in the district of than the vessels of the Queen Eliza
Vocal-Did Your Mother Come From charge of Bay View Police Station, Liangfeng was chosen to be one of
2.15 Close Down. beth class berum last your. Instead
Ireland? Pte. G. McGregor, of the Royal Truille-Sergeant T
StudioChildren's Hour.
(Kennedy-Carr); McInnes
A Feather Scots, said he had been driving cars that the Whippet car was extensive-
sald many colonies for refugees.
of using oll they will employ coal.
In Her Tyrolean Hat (Mills). aly damaged. After and possessed afly years,
describing the Until the first harvest the refugees; ilcence in England. About 8 p.m. on damage to various parts of the car's were given 15 cents, a day per capita
10 YEARS ACO January 14, he went to the Happy body, witness said that he found the for their daily maintenance. While Garage in Morrison Hill Road and steering column was badly bent, men are farming the newly-reclaimed Kowloon C.C. in a
The following will represent the hired a Whippet cat, for which he The joints were in good order, and land, their wives and some of their Craigengower at Happy Valley to match against paid $4. Witness was not asiced for damage has been due
the accident.
children above the age of 13 are morrow at 2 p.m.-F. a licence. Jackson was with
The cor could still
working in the small cotton spinning (Capt.) W. Ernce, A. W. Ramsey, N. be driven, and the
Goodwin and with witness driving, they drove steering was quite bedr
and weaving factory which has also 11. Ross, E. C. Fincher, E. F. Fincher, and stopped in
Witness to Queen's Road East and
also examined the brakes. Wing
been established in Liangfeng Mass Fung Street. Jackson got off. The rear wheel brakes were in good education classes
J. J. Hirst, F. E. Lawrence, H. A. are conducted and returned shortly afterwards with order. When he removed the front teach the rudiments of learning to
to Gregory, S. Jex and F. Cavenay. two women and two children. One wheel brakes, the near-side brake the refugess and to heighten their
women was Yu Sem-mul. lining dropped to the ground. It was patriotisin-Central News. Jackson sat next to witness, and the sull serviceable. The off-side brake
It is officially announced that the state burial of the remains of Dr. others sat in the rear.
lining also dropped to the ground off
Sun Yat-sen has been postponed to Witness drove to Stanley, and the rear shoe. The damage to the rident, and the defects might also June 1, so as to allow time for the there Jackson took over the wheel ning had
been caused by rough
have been the result of the accident, completion of various preparations, and drove for about half a mile, but treatment 10 the brakes. Jt could There was evidence that the car bad especially the construction of the sald he was not familiar with the av road. Witness took over vidove the accident. If it before or during been driven prior to the accident by Chungshun memorial highway, work an inexperienced driver, who might on which has been considerably Shaukiwan,
und here Jackson before the accident, it would crumple have stamped on the brakes and delayed by bad weather. again took the wheel. The engine up and cause a jar on the steering caused them to buckle. In his failed just before he started. Wit-end cause the ear to slew around to opinion, a verdict of accidental death ness took the wheel, and the car the side so affected,
should be returned, with insufcient later commenced wobbling
Summing up, Mr. Houston remind evidence to cast responsibility on the driving
ed the Jury that the defects to the about 30 miles per
owner of the garage or the driver of hour, and had notleed no wobble brake lining could have happened
the car. before. The wobble pulled the car therefore could have caused the ac
before the accident occurred, and
of the
نا
was
Witness
3 YEARS' SUFFERING
with GASTRIC ULCER
To-day a happy man
Tolak of it. Three dragging years of daily torture! "Goodness knows I have suffered," writes Mr. 5. A. and only those who have suffered from stric ulcer, can fully understand what ha endured. Here is his letter:
** feel it my duty to tell you of the wonderful results I had from Maclean Brand Stomach Powder. I have been suffering from Castria Ulcer for three years and goodness knows I have suffered, have had four X-rays, and I don't think I bave worked ons full week in two years. To-day I am one of the happiest men through
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On the jury returning their verdict, the Coroner sald he concurred.
Reporting Progress: by Ritchie Calder
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STATE RESEARCH CHIEF JOINS OIL FIRM'S STAFF
5 YEARS AGO
Moon Romberg); One Kiss ('New
An Education Quick- Out" Medley (Kreisler); Song Of Chorus: Vocal and Piano-Riding Scott Wood with Vocal sorgsky)....With Alfredo Campoli Alone At A Table For Two (Richman Paradise (King); Serenade (Mous- The Ringe In The
Carlton); Sky (Violin).
Layton;
and Florito)....Turner
Etude De Concert In F Minor Park-Fox-Trot (from "Happy 7.20 Elleen Joyce at the Plano. (Liszt); Etude De Concert In A Flat turns"); Shadows On The Moon-
Dance Orchestra Sunday In The Re- Major (Paul De Schlozer); Si Olseau Fox-Trot (fim Girl of the Golden J'Etals, A Tol Je Volerais (Bird West')....Roy Fox and His Orches Study-Henselt); En Route (Concert tra with Vocal Refrain by Denny Study-Selim Palmgren); La Danse Dennis. D'Olaf (Mangiagalli); Prelude In A 11 Close Down.
London might have sent it to him on in open order.
WRONGFUL DELIVERY parcel back, thinking his agents in
OF CLOTH LEADS TO COURT ACTION
(Continued from Pape 7.)
The French Air Ministry has con- cluded an agreement with Handley ants, and as a result he had to tell Page, Ltd., and have pald a sub-them he could not put the transaction stantial sum to them for full rights through as pinintiffs had obtained the at the French Air Force and French sole selling rights for Kowloon, manufacturers to six Handley Page slotted wings to their aircraft in French territory.
and
had also
Sold at Low Price He sold three and two-thirds yards of the cloth n! $3.25 a yard. He had the same kind of cloth from other firms In England, charged the same price.
Cross-examined, Kishen said he There had been a great demand for cold the cloth on the day after it had "Sharkskin" during 1938, but wit- been delivered to him. He did not. ness could not tell the difference in know then that the parcel did not, prices between the American belong to him, nor was he aware "Sharkskin" and that of his firm.
from where it came. When he opened Questioned by Mr. Mackinlay found the name "Ferguson" stamped witness maintained be told Mr. Hari on the cloth, and as a result of that the parcel, he he could not sell the goods to him he took it back to the Post Office to
Almost Immediate resumption of work on the giant Cunarder (No. 534) in expected, an agreement having been reached between the White Star Line and the Cunard Line.
The merger between the companies, which is applicable only to the North the Parls Silk Store had become ascertain if it was for him. Atlantic branches of the activities of the sole retailing agents. the two companies is contingent Mr. C. E. D'Almeida, of the United Mr. Dixon in January, 1938, it was upon Parliament's decision to pro- vide financial facilities.
An announcement was made in the House of Commons this evening by Mr. L. Hore-Belisha, who stated that DURING the past ten years, the broken down," Sir Frank told me.
the agreement to merge the Cunard amount spent by British Brms) "When you consider that over reached, conditional upon legislative and White Star, companies has been selentle researcht been per cent. of the flems who make up approval of the Treasury advance to
the Industries of this country Much of the credit for this pro- independent units employing fewer the merged company of a maxmum gross, which has changed the dog than 100 people, that is an important of £9,500,000. in-the-manger attitude of firms and advance; brought them into partnership with
doubled.
has
are
"They could not afford laboratories
the State, has been due to Sir Frank of their own, but they can share the Smith, F.R.S.
benefits of the Research
Sir Frank, recently announced his tions." retirement from his post as head of
There the Department of Sclentile and In-formed dustrial Research.
OF
Is
This is no isolated case. MACLEAN BRAND Stomach Powder is doing as much-often in seemingly hopeless cases all over the country. And if this great ... remedy can do wonders in serious stomach disorders, what can it not do for your Indigestion Heartburn, Acidity" Flatulence--the beginning of serious trouble? For remember, what at first oems alight indigestion may develop into
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health that can only be cund with the surgeon's knifo, Get a bottle at buco--only, look for the signature "ALEX C. MACLEAN.": Maclear Brand Stomach Powder is only genuine If this pignature appears on bottle and
cartón. Powder or Tablets Cheapiaita tions may only make your troubilas worm.. If you havn'ny difficulty in obtaining it Let your local obsnlat or store, write to Banker & Co., O Box 56. Hot Kong
KS155,
Associa
are 22 of these associations, by the various industries,
A® SUPER PESSIMIST;
(Continued from Page: 9.}
which are spending £10,000 or more Courtneldgs and Jack Hulbert have He has reached the age-limit, and a year on research.
to become general adviser
had a dig at the pessimists in their scientific research and development
**Thinge "afe "Looking Up" number.
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apprehension and pessimist. STRIENE IS a vast difference between
Although he placed an order with
Sales Association, which dealt most- not Mr. Dixon but Mr. Finch who
in sult-lengths, testifed to having subsequently told him it could not skin from the plaintiff firm at $0.50, promised the Paris Silk Store not to bought about 100 yards of "Shark- be carried through as they had Jard sometime last spring. He in sell the goods to any other firm in urn retailed the cloth at $8 a yard, Kowloon, He did not know the American "Sharkskin" of the same parcel was for the plaintif firm; he Was more expensive than thought it was sent to him by his Ferguson's by 25 to 30 per cent., pgents in London. the reason
being superior quality. Further questioned, defendant He also inported American "Shark-ald he learned the goods were not skin, for which he paid from $4 to for him three days after delivery, 35.50 and retalled it at $8 a yard. and agreed that it was not until Mr. Mackinlay: I put it to you October, when they went to the Post- that. no 'alk store has been and
that he offered to
soll "Sharkskin” at' $6 a have been selling it at that price
to malen of
Mr. Mackinky, submitted that the
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the cost price was only $2.25; witness held as having been converted, as his had intention to convert the goods as When told by his Lordship that balance of the goods could not be ample evidence to snow defendants remarked: This is the first time I clients had offered to return them, they had been told of the agreement to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, IR FRANK'S successor, Professor
paid wuch huge pronts to the Paris although admittedly there had been Professor E. V. Appleton, F.R.S.,
Suk. Stare." famous for his radio-researches sue- gave his name to an electric layer Appleton, who is 46 years of age,
conversion in respect of the 3 yards by Mr. Dixon, whose story must be Har Kishen, proprietor of defend- ceeded him on February 1,
„aid that in June, 1938, ach had been sold. There mult beßeved. His clients were perfectly' 130 miles above the earth, which re-
Fant frm
a demand and a refusal before entitled to refuse the offer for their flects wireless "waveż. "He
parcel alao Britain may have been apprehen- "Sharkskin" was delivered one could bring an action for con- return because of the reasons which 6HE old, resentment of Indivi-showed that, about 180 miles up the sive concerning the possibility of war, was not expecting it, and as the refusal. Further, plainting if they defendants kept thin goods
This store by
by the Post Office, He veralon, and here: there was no had been stated, and the 20ISKNAL temperature is in the region, operating with State assistance, on
The unahimity of all parties In
parcel did hot have any label, he so desired, could have obtained the three months while nowink/fon Now he is coming "down to earth Parlament on the question of Detento took it back to the Kowloon Poet, goods three days after the high well painting winded them for trade researches which will keep their into rood surfaces, shoelnatuer, pre- is quite sumcimit siestance that there were for him and that if he did not claim
Omre There he was told the food delivered to defendant page fully catablished their latention and world competition, has been ans
therefore why not look uhend optimizically?.
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