10
Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 16, 1940.
FRIGIDAIRE
Leads The World
See The Latest Cold Wall Models
DODWELL & Co., Ltd. Alexandra Building
READ THE BIGGEST TRUCK TIRE NEWS IN TEN YEARS
AMAZING NEW TRUCK TIBE GIVES EXTRA MILEAGE
Now you can carry greater loads at higher speeds, and this new Good- rich truck tire will give you increased mileage even on your toughest hauls. Come in and let us tell how
you this new tire saves you money.
"Goodrich"
LOCAL SUB-DISTRIBUTORS:
KA FOONG TIRE CO.
131, Hennessy Road
•
Tel. 24140.
Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere
Traffic in Jewels, Food, Currency
BIG
NAZI RACKET IS REVEALED
AMONG PARCELS seized by the British contraband control from American mails were parcels labelled "Strained Glass Windows" and "Industrial Samples," which were found to contain marked maps sent by Nazi agents in the United States, and commodities like coffee, fats and leather, which Germany sorely needs,
The official told, ico, of an ingenious; urrency racket by, which the Nazis were building up a reserve of Ameri- can dollars at the expense of the Jalted States.
Since the war started, scores of German organisations have sprung up
in
1. America-ostensibly banks, ship- ng agents and business firms-but really working on refinement of the
sucket shop principle.
They trade in "gift marks"-latest if the many varieties of the German People in America who want to send noney to friends and relatives in Germany are invited to buy these gift marks" nt seven to the dollar. Current rate 1s 2.75 marks,
CAMELS ARE
DOMESTIC ANIMALS
SAYS BRITISH HIGH COURT
sonal
The High Court has dismissed an appeal by the plaintiff, Mr. Robert In return for their dollars they MeQuaker, of Cumberland Street, receive a chit which may be eashed S.W., from a Judgment of Mr. in Germany-if it ever gets there. Justice Branson given at Kingston This, sold the official, is very Asses in favour of the defendant, profitable arrangement for Germany, Mr. R. S. Goddard, proprietor of the whose production of all kinds of Chassin
Chessington- Zoo, in an action marks is limited only by the capnelly brought by Mr. McQuaker claiming of the printing press.
damages from Mr. Goddard for per- Injuries received by him when he was bitten by a camel at the Chessington Zoo owing, as he alleged, to the negligence of Mr. Goddard.
The appeal raised the question whether a come! Wax animal within the domestic class so as to make It necessary to
o prove selenler, Mr. Justice Branson, held that a camel came within the class of de- meatle animals and that there was no case to go to the jury.
Noutral Address The chils are put in envelopes, addressed to banks all over Germany and enclosed in one big parcel boldly addressed to 617 accommodation address in a neutral country.
In the three months to the middle British Contraband January Control seized 5,279,750 of these gift £780,000 In ninrks-representing dollars added to the Nezl purse.
In the same period they confiscated £17,800 in sterling, 9,900 American dollars, drafts and cheques to a total of £106,000.
of
the
The plaintiff appealed.
an
Mr. Harold Brown appeared for the appellant; Mr. Eric Neve, KC.. and Mr. A. A. Pereira for the respon
Counsel for the respondent was not called on to argue.
Twenty-Ave thousand "sample" parcels were seized. They all con-dent. talaed food, military and political in- formation, currency or valuabies.
Judgment
The extent to which this racket could have fortified the tottering Nazi
Lord Justice Scott, in giving judg economy is shown by the fact that one package sent by letter mail-ruent, said that, by the old common contained £2,000,000 worth of indus- law of England, the rule was laid trial diamonds.
down that domestic animals were re- Another contained pearls worth garded in quite a different light from £3,000.
wild unimals. Wild animals were An elaborate organisation in New assumed to be dangerous to human York is running the food racket. beings, Domestic animals were not Germans are urged by advertisements regarded as dangerous. The owner to send their relatives in Germany of a wild animal must keep it in at parcels-safe delivery guaranteed.
out he The price charged me his peril, so that if he let itt in at was ilable for any injury which times the real value of the goods sent. might be caused. On the other makes a handsome profit. hand, in the case of domestic animals, The Arm nest of which goes into a Nazi fund
the presumption was the other wa in New York.
The plaintiff had to prove that Those few parcels which escape the defendant was aware of a particular British net nre stopped by the Ger-propensity in the animal to injure and put into a general human beings. Unless that know- man Customs pool. Those to whom they are ledge were proved, there was at addressed ever see the gifts.
way.
the
The control is operated with the common law no ability on the de- minimum of delay to the mails, and
fendant...
the British Government contend that; It was argued strongly that the It is entirely legal, although the U.S.camel stood in a different category Government have protested that it is from ordinary domestic animals be- against international law.
ROYAL TOMB FOUND
Pharaoh's Gold!
cause it was not domestic in Eng-
land. That argument was fallacious.
If
the animal did not exist in a wild
state in any part of the world it had ceased to be a wild animal. It had become trained to the uses of man and ez hypothest had become trained to associate with man. It was well to remember that it was the function of the Judge and not the jury to dc- cide whether an animal belonged to the class of wild animals or the class of domestic animals. It was enough to say that in this case the Judge rightly decided that the camel must be regarded a domestic animul.
If that were so, any cause of ac tion which the plaintiff had could not be put on the higher ground of absolute duty as in the case of wild animal likely to
escape and do damage.
His only course was either knowledge by the defendant to prove iof general propensity in any camel to bite, or else to establish a case of negligence. There was no evid-| ence that at the time the plaintiff was injured the defendant had any knowledge that this camel had a pro- pensity to bite.
EUROPEAN Y.M.C.A.,
IKOWLOON)
The Amateur Dramatic Club
presents
HOUSEMASTER"
(A Comedy of Youth by Ian Hay)
MARCH 28th, 29th & 30th at 9 p.m.
Admission $3, $2.20 & $1.10
IN AID OF THE BRITISH WAR ORGANIZATION FUND
Booking at
ANDERSON'S, Hongkong & Y.M.C.A. Kowloon
OFFICE EQUIPMENT
THE
AND SUPPLIES
OFFICE APPLIANCE
LIMITED
York Building, Chater Road.
PHONE 34177
Co.
Sole Agents for the following world-famous
lines:-
ROYAL STANDARD & PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS MONROE CALCULATORS VICTOR ADDING MACHINES KARDEX SYSTEM CABINETS KEELOX RIBBONS & CARBONS ELLIOTT ADDRESSING MACHINES
TODD 'CHECKWRITERS
NEISON DUPLICATING MACIÚNES
G. F. ALLSTEEL OFFICE FURNITURE, FILING CABINETS, ETO,
DICTAPHONE DICTATING & TRANSCRIBING EQUIPMENT.
ALSO MANY OTHER FORMS OF OFFICE SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT IN STOCK
Consult us without obligation
大食食
FOLLOW
Ligu
REAL QUALITY
ZORIC
GARMENT CLEANING SYSTEM;
AIR CONDITION DRY CLEANING
FOR ALL TYPES OF CLOTHING
RUG AND CARPET SHAMPOOING OUR SPECIALTY
THE Tomb of Pharaoh Psousennes, supposed father-in-law of King Solomon, has been found. Psousennes governed Egypt from about 1160 B.C., and it is the first royal tomb of the 21st dynasty over discovered intact. It was submitted that, as the de- The walls of the tomb and the sar- fendant was the keeper of a zoologi- oplingus are of granite.. In it are cal garden, it should be presumed the the king's rod in plated gold, and that he had expert knowledge of
hablis of camels and knew that they vases of pure gold.
to bite. in evid-
Hong Kong Depot, 310 auch
was Penic Depot, There was, further, no evidence of knowledge by the
defer- dant that this particular camel had a propenalty to bite and on evidence
Thad a general enched.
In a second chamber was found the sarcophagus of Prince Aurnokht. This had been robbed, though a number of priceless objects remain.
to
that it had in fact A propensity
The Judge was right in not leaving any issue on that part of the
The French expedition, which last year unearthed the tomb of Pharaoh Shishak, made the discovery. They hink it is on archaeological discovery bite.
rival in importance the finding of Tutankhamen's burial place,'
It is expected to throw light on a
period of !ille-known Fgyptian history.
ancient
THEY GOSSIP
case to the Jury..
Tho other aspect of the care was that of negligence. The plaintiff contended that the defendant should have known that so flimsy and in- effective a fence as the wire-netting was not sufficient. But that submis slon really rested on the assumption that the defendant knew. that
there was danger of the camel's biting Munich, as a source of inform-someone. If he did not know that, there was no duty on him to have à ation from inside Germany, is moro effective fence. far more reliable than Berlin, United Dairies (Londoned
IN MUNICH
V.
for Munich is the Home Town (60 "The Times" L.R. 201), was of the Nazi Aristocracy and the case where there was independent evidence of negligence and for that Nazi, Movement, and
And they are openly talking thero,eason it had no bearing on the pre- sent case. The appeal must be dis- organisations of a large scalo Ger- Lord
· MacKintion and Lord man attack on Scandinavia in the Justice Clauson delivered judgment Spring.
to the same effect.
In the clubs, and among the students' | misscOLF WATE
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.
Head Office & Works 37032
Tel. 21270, Gloucester Bldg., 2nd Flr., Tel. 28038. Tel. 58545. Tel. 29352. Kowloon Depot,
THE
HONGKONG
· PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:
&
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS
LIMITED
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wazons Lite, Pokin