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"DR. JEKYLL and MR. HYDE”
A Paramount Pictura
Expedition
Mammals Captured
In Burma
Engaged
I
DANCERS' DRESSES
Action By Frock Shop For Payment
The engagement was anounced re- cently of Lord Howland, heir to the Marquis of Tavistock, and grandson of the Duke of Bedford, to Mrs. Clare Hollway, of Willon-street, S.W.
Mrs. Hollway is one of London's beal-dressed women. Her marriage: "We wanted mammals of all sixer which took place in 1925, was dia- employed by the Grand (or Kwong- to Mr. Kenneth C. W. Hollway, Dresses ordered by danco hostesses from the mouse right on up solved curly this year. She has a chow Cabaret, plained Dr. II. E. Anthony yesterday
Hill Road, West when he told the history of the ex-con, Nicolas, aged eleven, who is at Point, from the International Com- pedition which he has just led into school at Broadstairs.
pany, of Des Voeux Road Central, The marriage will take place short-formed the subject of a claim brought Later, Lord Howland Intends to by the International Company against obtain his first post, probably in the Cabaret before Mr. Justice R. E. estate management.
Lindsell in the Summary Court Lond
Burmu
on behalf of the American
Museum of Natural History, New York.
"I think it can be considered a successful expedition," he added, re-
porting that he and his four white hate Howland is 6ft. 3ins.,' and' red- yesterday. Plaintiffs cisimed $210.40
companions had bagged 1,000 mam- mal
specimens, 1,500 birds, and 2,600 plants, along with perhaps a million plant seeds which may come to blossom in American and English Kardens.
Dr. Anthony, who is Curator of the Department of Manimals at the American Muscum, arrived in Burma in November. There he joined two Engilshmen, Captain Kingdon Word, noted botanist, and Mr. J. K. Stan- ford, ornithologtst and former De- puty-Commissioner in Burma, and the arrival of Mr. A. S. Vernny and Suydam Cutting, Muscum trustees, who had sponsored the ex- pedition, completed the party,
The
Duke of Bedford is Britain's richest duke. His estate is reputed to be worth £10,000,000. He sold property and theatres at Covent Gorden, in 1913, for £2,750,000.
His wife, the Duchess of Bedford, disappeared on a fight from her home at Woburn Abbey. In March 1037.
na balance due for goods sold and delivered, and costs,
Mr. A. S. K. Lau appeared for plaintiffs, and Mr. W. M. Brown for defendants.
Afr. Lau said in December a re- presentative of the Cabaret called on plaintiffs and said It was proposed to open a Cabaret. It was up to the Cabaret, he said, to lend the dancing hostesses money in order to enable them to buy dresses to make them- elves attractive in their, business, He also said that on the Cabaret had Aavailable, and naked plaintiffs to not yet opened, ready cash was not
MENDICANTS GAOLED Old Offender Ordered
Month's Imprisonment
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llow the girls credit, anying the Cubaret would undertake to pay for the dresses ordered:
With previous convletions for
The manager told the representa- Big game hunting experience and similar offences, Cheong Yhu, 37, was
live to write offering terms and yesterday sentenced to participation in several earlier ex-
month's undertaking to pay for the dresses. peditions equipped Mr. Vernay for
hard labour by Mr. E. Himsworth at ordered within seven days. A letter The undertaking. and Mr. Cutting. Kowloon Magistracy for begging was inter received from the Cabaret, who was with the Roosevelt expedi-He was seen to ask pedestrians for signed by Daniel Li, who represented tion which captured zeveral glant aims in Nathan Road.
himself to be the manager, It con- pandos in Tibet, had done much ex-
Both blind, Siu Yau, 50, and gained certain terms, bui did not ploring in both Tibet and Indin.
wife, L Sze-nul, 50, were charged mention the undertaking to pay for with begging in Ashley Road, Kow- dresses ordered within seven days. loon. They dented the charge but Plaintiffs wrote back, pointing this were convicted,
The
man was sentenced to out, but no reply was received, and.
accordingly plaintiffs
took this month's lord Inbour and fined $5. or silence as consent. another two weeks' imprisonment,
Soon afterwards, dancing hostesses for breach of a bond signed in went to plaintiffs, producing curds pect of a similar offence some months with the name of the Cabaret and
While chiefly pursuing the
Museum's aim to make a represen- tive collection of mammals from all over the world, the expedition. was charged to collect also such birds and plants as they encounter- ed.
110 People In Comp
"We were quite a party,” recount- ed Dr. Anthony. "With coulies, cor- riers and skinners there were some- times 110
110 people in our camp and maybe as many as a hundred mules. We pushed northward from Myitkyina, Burma's northernmost railhead, and pressed on and upward until the snow stopped us. There was sometimes a font of snow in our camp. The farthest point of our trek was 15 doys' march from Myitky Inn.
"There were known head-hunters on each side of us, but they did not give us any trouble. In fact, we found the hill tribes, who are very distinct' types from the lowland Burmans, very friendly and we'en- gaged them as porters. They wear colourful costumes and were excel- lent subjects for the colour pictures
which we took."
Dr. Anthony sald that along the border of Yunnan and Burma they found growing the taiwania tree- which is the real name of the coffin tree for whose wood the Chinese are willing to pay exorbitant rates for use as coffin planks.
The tree is quickly disappearing and such trees as remain are already earmarked.
The expedition found that the tree was the medium of quite a profit- able undertaking business. Growing to a height of 200 feet, it yielded The as many as 80 coffin plunks. Maru tribe sold a tree to the Chin- ese for 40 rupees. The Chinese then cut down and transported the tree at cost of 300 rupees, and secured a return in coffin planks of 1,200 rupees-ak-
a handsome profi ing
The wania grows only in Formosa and
Captain
sald Ward, Anthony, proved to his own satis- faction that
in it does not grow
brought in a gang,
Burma.
tal-
ngo, The woman was bound over in $5 for a year.
LATE NEWS
Daring Attack In City Street
In full view of dozens of passers- by, a daring attack was made on an unknown Chinese in Des Voeux Road
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countersigned by the manuger. They were given credit for dresses,
Exceeded Credi
Cheng Ki-cho. manager of the International Co., said that when the girls ordered dresses which exceeded the credit agreed upon, he telephon- ed Li Yat-chung at the Cabaret. Li undertook to pay for the excess and plaintiffs therefore looked to the Cabaret as being responsible for any debt incurred by the girls. Former- ly, he used to send completed dresses to the Cabaret, but later he received general Instructions to let the girts
have the dresses they ordered, if they
signes for them.
Cheng said $500.40 worth of goods had been sold and delivered to de- fendants, and only $350 worth bud been paid for. He was claiming the balance. He had received neknow- Central at 9.40 o'clock this morning. ledgment of the amount owing when The victim of the attack is now in le sent an assistant to the Cabaret hospital. He was picked up conscious, a large bamboo pole along
un-with a debt acknowledgment book, side him indicating the type of weapon that had been used. In the unconscious man's hand was a meat chopper, The
alleged assailant was captured by an Indian wateliman.
The victim was badly injured on the head, face and upper part of the torso. He was given first aid by two Indians before being taken to hospital. The incident occurred outside the Bank of Canton.
Prisoners Leap From Train
Jumping off a fast-moving train Dr. as it thundered through the outskirts of Kowloon, two prisoners en route from the Taipo Police Station to Stanley made a daring attempt esenpe yesterday afternoon.
England, where, he considers, a plat of trees grown from seeds brought home from Burmil ore netually Juniper trees,
Rhododendron Trees
Referring to their seed collections,
for a chop was placed on the book.
Cross-examined by Mr. Brown, plaintiff said he had never agreed with defendants to look to the earn- ings of the girls to be deducted for payment of the dresses,
Daniel Ll, manager of the Cabaret, sald he had never made an agree meat with plaintiffs to pay for the dresses within the time stipulated. He only undertook to pay for them after deducting their cost from the earnings of the hostesses. He denied being responsible for the debt.
The case was adjourned to May 13.
SUICIDE-PACT-
Chinese Girls Dead In Empress Hotel
Two
Chinese girls unidentified Empress Hotel in Vecus, Read, Cen- were found dead, in a room in the
tral, last night.
The men were quickly recaptured,
Police suspect a suicide pact, both sustaining multiple injuries in'
The girls, one aged 26, the other their leap from the train.
The incident occurred near the No. their deaths were due to poisoning, 18, were strangers to the district, and
3 railway bridge. The prisoners They were without means of support.
Inspector Hopkins is in charge of
Dr. Anthony said: "We collected the were in a party of four men who were seeds of many plants already intro-under escort from Taipe to Kowloon the investigations. duced into England, We found The two men are now in Kowloon many of them up in the snow coun- | dospital, try where only hardy plants survive. There we came upon rhododendrons growing on trees several feet, thick. ccrtala that
Captain Word is
new
mens
There were
examination will disclose several
types
among these plants. Mr. Stanford said that the birds Included some of the finest spec
entia had seen. some which had never before been taken in Burma, and some which, perhaps, had never been taken any where in the world. For my own part. I am satisfied that examina- tion of skulls, still to be made will reveal that our collection Includes a number of hitherto unrecorded mnt- mals."
Dr. Anthony is the last member of the expedition to leave the East, Mesora. Vernay, Cutting and Stah- ford having flown to England and Captain Ward. baving gotte by steamer. Dr. Anthony salls for America to-day by the Talula Maru,
HONGKONG REFUGEES. Latest Position in The Government Camps
The numbers of refugees and des- titutes accommodated in Government -camps in urban and rural areas are
given offelally as follows:
In urban areas, elvilians-King's Park 1,000 for the week ending April' 29 as compared with 1,010) on April 22; Matauchung 920 na compared with 809; North Point 1,005, as com- pared with 1,070.
In urban areas, soldiers—In Lal- chikok Hospital (Upper Ward) 15 on April 20 as compared with 13 on April 22; and Matnuchung 763 as compared with 772,
In rural areas-At Kam Tin 4,380 on April 20 as compared with 4,320 on April 22; Fanling, North-721 as compared with 740; Fanling, South 800 as compared with 883' and 'Man' *Kam To 78 as compared with 977.
Allegations Refuted
Weddings Arranged
The following forthcoming wed- Robert dings are announced; Mr. Mailand Cherry, engineer of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, Hongkong, to "There is definitely no truth In the Miss Ludmila Lipovátskuya, steno- allegation that the Sagres was carry-grapher, of Duboit Apartments, 181 ing arms," said Mr. S. T. Williamson Avenue Dubolt, Shanghul; Mr. this morning.
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