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SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1925.

OILER ABLAZE,

EXCITING HARBOUR

FIRE

BRIGADE'S HARD TASK

TIME FOR CAMP.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE'S APPEAL.

(Reuter's Servica.) ·

The following circular letter signed by Mr. M. F. Key, the BELGRADE, January 2. Between eleven and midnight Acting Secretary," has been sent A first class political sensation last night, the harbour was startled to the members of the Hongkong has been created by the Govern- by a succession of blasts from the General Chamber of Commerce :-- ment decree ordering the dissolut-of-burner ship "Ling Nam"

The Chamber was recently tion of the Radich Croatian Pea-which is tied to buoy No. Aš asked to recommend, that an sants' Party on the ground that the almost opposite the

Harbour additional Bank Holiday be Party has allied with itself Com-Office.

declared on a Saturday in this munism.

On investigation it was found month in order to facilitate The decree orders the confisca- that a fire had broken out on board | attendance at the Volunteer tion of the Party's 'archives, and the ship. The Fire Brigade was Training Camp, which is to be the immediate

of the notified by the Water Police and held this year on two successive executive.

No. 1 Fire Float proceeded post week ends, viz, from Friday The decree forbids. members to haste to the ship.

evening. January 7, to Sunday hold posts in the public services

In the foreward stokehold, be-evening, January 9 and from tween the boilers and an oil tank. Friday evening, 16th to Sunday or to enter Parliament.

the fire was located Apparently, evening 18th. some oil in the bilges had become ignited. It is thought that the reYear following so closely upon It was felt that, with China New was due to the boiler becoming the Christmas and New Year holl- over-heated or to back-fires from days, the Committee could not" Dense fumes were issuing from Government to declare an addi- consicientiously recommend the the place. In addition to having

arrest

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DOCTOR ACCIDENT."

HIS MEMORY RESTORED

BY KICK

the boilar,

Impelled by business considera-

to find their way through a maze of tional holiday in January. Though The remarkable case of Mr.twists and turns, through the toas to take this view, the W. G. Harbord, whose maniory engine-room and stoke.room the Chamber trusts that Firms "will was restored by the kick of a horse, fireman were handicapped by the do their utmost. to make arrange is the latest addition to a long list slippery condition of things, not ments whereby a maximum au- of cases in which accidents have of the men includiaz Mr. H. Tber of men can attend both of the. accomplished cures which medical Brooks, Superintendent and Mr. week-end camps and thus gain the G. C. Moss, Station Officer, getting fullest advantage from this annual a dirty oil bath.

skill has been unable to effect;

A curious story of a similar

When six lengths of hose had opportunity for intensive training. kind was told some time ago by heen, brought down to the spot, the The Volunteer. Force has made Major-General Maunderson, of

such encouraging progress this danger of the fire spreading and Tiverton. }

"In India," he said "eight or an explosion following, were re-Year in regard to numbers that a ten officers quartered near Lahore moved. In a few minutes the burn small attendance at Camp would were out hawking ravine deer and ing part was flooded and the fire be a most disappointing set-back, It is specially requested by the obara, and during a run Colonel put out. Nevertheless it took the fighter speaker, artist, writer, Fisher's horse blundered over Brigade about an hour to get down Commandant that men who can be

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A TRICK OF THE BRAIN "The only injury he received in such large quantities or not-native cotand he rested on it for was loss of memory. We got a should be used to the full. The three hours without getting better. future, all unknown, seems to be We kept asking what he was do- Winston's. He regards it doubting to have fallen, and so on, but he could remember nothing about less, as did Charles Frohman pass-

As we were some twelve jing hence on the doomed "Titanic" miles from Lahore, it was sug- as a great adventure. National gested that he should be carried Liberal and Eighty Clubs have no home on the cot by coolies. terrors for him."

0. B. E.

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"This be objected to, and in- sisted on riding home. A brother officer and I rode with him. By the time we got near Lahore it was dusk, and his pory fell with him over a heap of limestone at the side of the road... He again fell on his head, unhurt; but his memory was completely restored."

AFTER FORTY YEARS.

tinguish the outbreak

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Actually there was little damage, excepting, of course, to the oil plates which cracked up as the which was burnt and the floor result of water being thrown on when white hot, Chinese flag and is owned by the Chung Wan Navigation Co... Ltd. She is employed on the run between Hongkong and South América, having arrived bere on December 28 with passengers and cargo from Tarakan. Her fannel resembles those of the "City

The 8.8. "Ling Nam" filles the

Live.

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QUEEN'S THEATRE.

possible, so that they can send in their games and thus facilitate the messing arrangements.

The Chamber confidêntly looks" to its Members to give the Officers and Men of the Volunteer Defence Corps the heartiest support and encouragement in this matter.

BUS ACCIDENT.

DRIVER AND IN PECTOR COMMITTED.

Mr. N. I Brewer and Mr. D. McCallum appeared for the two defendants.

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than the aetion of the Egyptian It is not many years since a most readily welded together into sat in the driver's seat The only chauffeur at a crucial and critical remarkable case of dumbness a plot paralleling that told by time he touched the wheel, said excited great interest in medical Dickens-the story of how Monks witness, was when the bus was time.

circles. Twelve months earlier a first tried to destroy the soul of crossing the road. "Asked why the cattle dealer had been kicked by a Oliver and then plotted to destroy driver occupied only half of his horse, with the result that he com- his life.

seat, witness replied that it my have been done to enable him to

The hearing of the manslaughter charge against a driver and The lavish distribution of such

Inspector of the Kat Tack Motor Orders as that of the British

A great many of the patrons of death of an old man in the Kow- Bus Company as a result of the Empire, rather brought them into disrepute, which explains the now

the Queen's Theatre yesterday loon City bus accident on Nov- limited output of them and the

More remarkable still was the went to enjoy a screened series of ember 30 was concluded before equally limited display on the part experience of William Alien, a antics performed by the screen's Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kow- of those entitled to wear the Order soldier, who was severely wounded most gifted and adorable boy loon Magistracy yesterday after- and use the initials.. It should in the head at the Battle of Gettys. They remained to marvel at the noon. therefore be a matter for con- burg. Allen recovered from his genius of a real actor to whom but one of many forms gratulation that those responsible wound, but the machinery of his comedy Hongkong, Saturday, January 31925. are evidently taking a serious brain appeared to have stopped. of expression. Many went im- view of their responsibilities and For forty years his mind was a pelled by their love for the lad

The first defendant's evidence making an attempt to restore the blank so far as current events were whose image they have watched Order to the prestige from which concerned; but he retained a vivid so many times projected on the as to the effect that the inspector They remained to order to test the steering gear assured charge of the wheel in it has fallen. This seems to be memory of the incidents of his life ailver sheet.

up to the unlucky day, and could thrill in the presence of a tiny regarding which he had made shown by the news that the O.B.E. describe long-dead men and trivial tragedian. Jackie Coogan was the several complalat's to the fitters. has been conferred upon the incidents of his youth with remark boy, the play was: Frank Lloyd's and the inspector. Control of the Mr. Winston Churchill has re- chauffeur who drove the late able: fledlity. On July 22, 1903, adaptation of "Charles Dickens' wheel was gained forcibly, and signed from the National Liberal Sirdar before and after he was he was thrown from a horse, on to "Oliver Twist" presented as soon after the bus suddenly ran off Club, and now the Eighty Club has assassinated. With the knowledge his head; and, after recovering First National Attraction.

of the splendid piece of bravery consciousness, found that his requested him to resign, stating shown by the man, it might be memory was completely restored.

the road into the stream. It cannot be said that any The second defendant stated that it will otherwise erase his argued that something

The fear of an accident was the Twist" can be set forth either on by the driver that the steering novel of the length of "Oliver that in view of complaints made name from membership. In a few practical than the Order mention-means of restoring speech to stage or screen, and remain in gear was slack, he was standing

ed might have been bestowed. dumb man. pregnant words we have limned The practical" side may well be at Gosport, had been dumb for perfect agreement with the la front of the bus watching

The man, who lived for us another chapter in a some- left to those on the spot, and we four years wheb, on returning that this or that episode had been vehicle swerved to such an ex original; but, while some will wish the first defendant drive. The what meteoric 'career. Winston should be a little surprised if some home one evening, his bleycie Churchill's conscience is probably tangible recognition has not been skidded. In his alarm he shouted, chosen from the book rather than tent that he lost his balance and made. The main thing is that the and was so startled and surprised what is filmed, it must be conceded fell, catching the wheel with as elastic as those of most politi- Order of the British Empire is at hearing his voict that he called that Mr. Lloyd took with a logical one hand and the seat with the cians, but he should be a man being made a thing worth prizing. out again and agajo satil he was hand those portions of the novel other. The bus then dropped into after Ruskin's own heart who has It has been given for many things, convinced that speech had return that lent themselves best, to the the stream Witness denied that said some wise things on the vital but scarcely for anything bettered to him.

medium of the screen and were he pushed the first defendant or need in revising, one's beliefs or convictions. We can think of Winston's brilliant war-correspon- | dent articles during the Boer War;

his dramatic escape from Pretoria A Plea For Sport.

pletely lost his voice. A year Lon Chaney's performance of and later his essay to get into

test the bus. A plea for the preservation of later he was riding a doomed the rôle of Fagin will add laurels Parliament as a representative of the true idea of sport is made in horse to the slaughterer's yard, even to that much and honourably the Bench at length, His Worship a Lancashire constituency. It is the current number of the when the animal began to kick bedecked actor. Many will clainu said that a prima facie case had been strange there are no stories extant "Quarterly Review" by the Rey, and plunge in a dangerous man-it to be his most vivid and made out ‘against both the de

Edward Lyttleton, the former

The man we are told, imaginative creation. Gladys fendants and be would commit of the experiences of this lisping headmaster of Eton, writing under

"lost his head indd excitement, Brockwell signalizes her return them for trial at the next Criminal aristocrat and the sturdy mill the heading of "Sport and Sports-and after a few milites began to to the screen by a notable per: Sessions.

talk."

+ formance operatives of Oldham. Having manship." Sport as a recreation

of the rôle, of HIS FIRST WORDS. tasted political blood; this son of

tion that may win championships of a blacksmith, Paul Srengel, who Belmore an English and American union, and Olympic games is the sub-was kicked in the head by a horse Each was a conscientious perform and Lionel as Mr. Brownlow. is never satiated. There is a stance of the appeal. "Victory," while in the middle of a sentence ance, co-ordinated and controlled period of holding Conservative he writes, "purchased by slavish addressed to his assistant, and by the genius of Frank Lloyd who tenets during which, if we mistake professionalism will sound the rendered unconscious for several in "Oliver Twist" reveals more of not he was an adherent of the certainly, but in all probability was an absolute blank, until one his, but no less of power, and who knell of sport. It will be-not days On recovering, his mind subtlety than in any other work of slogan which said that Balfour an indication that we are throwing day he fell down a flight of steps, thus verifies his right to stand in Must Go. Next comes his away our heritage and subscribing pitching on his head.

as against the excessive specialisa-More curious still was the case George Siegmann

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"Liberalism" and now his return to an ugly and devastating idea. He was picked up in a dazed the position assigned him-in the to the flock from which he prob that individual excellence ought to condition; and on recovering his very front rank of the world's ably drove himself. The uncer-be purchased at the cost of a huge senses the first words he uttered greatest directors.

irreparable national loss." Mr. were the completion of the sen tainties of cricket are probably Lyttleton looks upon Sport as tence that had been interrupted by not to be compared with those of England's contribution to the re- the horse's kick some months learned that Senator Borah, Chair Washington, January 2-It is

man" of the Senate Foreign Re politics. The courage and honesty creation of mankind and at this earlier.

time when recreation is more Some time ago a Devonshirelations Committee; intends shortly of Mr. Stanley Baldwin in. creat imperatively needed than ever man, who had been blind for to move a resolution requesting ing a strong Cabinet is recognised before he thinks we are in danger nearly twenty years, sustained a the President to convene Interaad His courage in asking. Winston of succumbing to certain poison fracture of the skull in a carriage, tional Conference to consider Arst Church of Christ, Melantiot. Churchill to become Chancellor of ous influences" which we rather accident. In the necessary opera-farther disarmament and economic the Exchequer is also recognised hastily suppose are telling upon tion part of the skull which had problems. — Reuter, American

other peoples more than on our been driven into the brain was Service. and almost universally favoured. selves. Whether our continued removed, with the result that, The coming sessions of Parliament participation in the Olympic when the padent gained conscious. should-be-brimful of interest if Games works for weal or wos heness, he found that his sight was only because of the almost certain considers as entirely depending on restored to him,

whether we can plough our tonely verbal duels between the Chan-furrow refusing to purchase cellor and his erstwhile enemies success at the cost of bondage but

"Two-workmen, at the Nether, string of firecrackers, with his. TRY THIS FOR YOUR COUGH. the Soolalists. In Winston there showing that excellence is still lands Harbour Works Co's fore tories and mythological tables A nerrous hacking court cand e e possible Premier or a leader of possible to true sportmen; or are at North Folat were hujured at intervals, string out from the eased by a glass of water, but whether we allow ourselves to be yesterday morning by's fall of roof garden to the ground and damppear under the healing and yet another party. Nature which besotted by the spell of filthy earth. They were remused lo the up again to the first floor, was feet of; Chamberlin's

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