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TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1930.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MOTOR CYCLE v. CAR. “ONLY ONE PER CENT. OXFORD'S “G.O.M.”

Student Causes a

Crash.

$50 COMPENSATION DESIRED.

T. K. Chan. a student at St. Stephen's College, Stanley, was ti-day summoned before Mr. R. E. Lindsell for negligent driving is Renham Road at 5.20 p.m. on May 27.

The defendant was not present in Court, but sent one of his ser vants represent him, and this man told the Magistrale that he had been instructed to admit the offence.

WILFUL LIARS”.

(Coutinned Fram Page 1.)

I say to you that it is entirely untrue?-1 say not.

I put it to you that the system

Passing of Sir Henry SHADOWS BEFORE

Warren.

GREAT EDUCATIONALIST:

London, Yesterday.

A former Professor of Poetry was provided by you because Mr.at Oxford University, Sir Thomas Brearley did not guarantee the Henry Warren, K.C.V.O., has died water supply That is not true at the age of 77.-Reuter.

You are familiar with the 1927 proposals of your-predecessor, Mr. Parker?--Yes,

Counsel then referred witness to a certain paragraph in which a cooling water system was pro- to allow An vided, which was overflow of water to return to the well.

Clving the facts of the case. Traffic Inspector Alexander said

His Predecessor's Mind. Mr. that the complainant was

Asked if he could find a mean- W. P. Thomson, a Police Proba-ing to that, witness sald that he tioner, Mr. Thomem was driving could not read what was in his his motor eyele along Bonhum

predecessor's mind. Road, on his proper side, going westward, aul when near the juation of Park Road. he saw the defendant's nutor was stationary on the north side r the road.

<".

It

As Mr. Thomson approached. the defendant started his ear and shol aeross the rout to the south wide, in front of the motor eyele This movement caused Mr. Thom

trollide with the son's eyele wall, causing damage to the ex- tint at $50.

i

Mr. Potter: Oh. but you have

to wipe stepped into his shoes? Yes, but Mr. Brearley asked me out the old proposals.

Ponr

Oh, Mr. Brearley again. Brearley! But 1 say to you that that tank was provided to over come a possible shortage of water tor the purpose of refrigeration?

don't know if it was, but Mr. Brearley had to take care of the

water,

Reference was then made to a Mr. drawn by Specification

that he had not.

from the con- was

Mr. Potter: But you told us in thut you

saft-Yes.'

Was

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[Sir Henry Warren, as he was known, was a Scholar of Baliol College, Oxford, and was later elected to an Hon. Fellow

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TO-MORROW.

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SULTAN AND POPE. Pomp and Pageantry of Friday Prayers.

Rabat (Morocco),

1st Battalion Somerset L.I. (Prince Albert's)

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It is, Friday, and the Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Moulay Youssuf The Motor Vessel, Ben Moulay El Hassan is going

"PANAMA "

The bill of rehair was produc <<:: to the Magistrate by Mr. Mackenzie, who was Mr. Brearley's Thomson, who agreed that if the predecessor. In that specification Magistrate mide an order for $50 it was mentioned that a mild steel tank should be erected to receive would accept compensation he that amount in full settlement or the heated water his claim against the defendant, densers, and when witness

NOT WANTED. Defendant's reprezentative told asked if he had discussed that his Worship that he had only, matter with Mr. Brealey, he said

Wher Leung Mui (13) been authorised to pay the fine;

brought before Mr. Whyt-Smith therefore, he could not pay com- your evidence in chief pensation,

had read. Mackenzie's specifient the Kowloon Police Court this Mr. Lindsel gave a short adtion and you had noticed that he morning, on a charge of hawking in state to worship at the royal

without a licence, his Worship; mosque in the garden of his palace having arrived, Consignees of cargo Journment for the representative had stated that the water remarked that he wondered if it among the douars. There is a fan are hereby informed that all goods risk into the hazardous and/or extra- te telephone the defendam, after

I therefore put it to you that would be any use sending the girl fare of trumpets, and the proces-ure boing landed and placed at their he had sion leaves the Makhzen, the royal hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong which the representative informed

& Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd serious possibility to the S.C.A., because throughout A the Magistrate that he had been

found that sending her to jail was household..

The procession is headed by the where delivery can be obtained as soon instructed by his master to, ask for an adjournment to enable the of the shortage of water was al

No claims will be admitted after the Her mother was bound over this mounted Black Guard, then come as the goods are landed. ways in contemplation? Not by useless, defendant to apprar personally.

me, but it might have been con-

year, and Lance-Sergeant Rogers servants of the household, follow-

goods remaining undelivered after the His Worship accordingly re-sidered by my predecessor.

p.m., will be sub- manded the case until 11 a.m. on

Well, if your predecessor and Mr. intimated to the Magistrate that ed by other troops, mounted and goods have left the Godowns, and all 'Saturday.

Mackenzie had that consideration when they sent out for her yes on foot, all in gorgeous uniforms 16th June, 1936,

then why should Mr. Jerday she could not be found. and robes. Then comes the Sultan je broken, shafed and damaged

goods the umbrella, a vast green sun. where they will be examined by Brearley give you a guarantee? He thought that the mother did himself, preceded by the holder of All breken, shafed and damaged The Sultan is flanked by Messra Anderson & Ashe on the. He probably found out more about not care about the girl..

His Worship pointed out that shade. the S.C.A. would find some dif- four men on either side, carrying 14th instant at 10 am. the well later.

Cume, now this is a fair pointficulty as the girl's parents were wonderfully fashioned fly-whisks. All claims against the vessel must If Mr. Mackenzie had till alive, but Sergeant Barnicle Music and more servants close the be presented to the Undersigned before contemplated a water shortage, he suggested that he would see the procession.

Secretary for Chinese Affairs himself.

SHIP NOT ENTERED. Master Finds Harbour

Office Closed.

BUT CONVICTION REGISTERED To-day, Capt. E. Holmes, master of the British steamer Lyemoon, appeared before the Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N., at the Marine Court on a charge of failing to "enter" is ship at the Harbour Office within a specified time after arrival on May 31.

in mind,

A "Fair. Point."

to make.

would surely not have told his otherwise? Yes. but also contem-

successor

Mr. Mackenize was plating a larger plant.

You discovered from that spezi fention that the water was salt?

-Yes.

The girl was remanded for 48 hours.

NO CEMETERIES.

Another Break with the Past.

Did that convey nothing to your

Mr. askerl

Brearley mind?-

that the And he said Capt. Holmes stated that the bout it Lyemoon arrived after noon on water was only brackish. May 31. It was not until about

But salt water in that connec 12.45 p.m. that the ship was made tion surely means brackish water?

what Mr. in fast to the buoy, after which he did not know proceeded to the Harbour Office to Mackenzie meant when he said the

He reached.ater was salt. register his arrival.

Was

Caskets of Gold.

On certain Moorish days of festival the young Sultan drives out the has a great collection of powerful French motor-cars), and plays the leading part in magni- ficent ceremonials in either Rabat, Mequinez or Marrakesh.

to rent.

the 18th June, 1930, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bill of Lading- will be counter- signed by ·

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neighbour. The tea begins at about 6.30, and ends about half, an hour later, when the Sultan re-

Some of these festivities last for three days and nights, and thou sands of tribesmen come into the city for the festivities. During a tires. Stamboul, May 7.

"hedia," as some of these festivalr The present young Sultan was The last vestiges of cemeteries

are called, the tribes offer presenta not the direct heir to the throne, Stamboul are to disappear.

to their Sultan.

but was chosen, according to tradi Caskets of gold or of silver are tion, by the important personages. In the eighteenth century, when only Turks resided in Pern, Lady | brought forward, and others lead of Morocco.

Montagu Wortley

The tiny eighteen-month-old But you will agree that Mr. Mary

out prancing Arab steeds, with it at 1.15 p.m. and found that the

did con- struck by its resemblance to an

gorgeous native saddles, trimmed, baby, now nestling in the arms of office was closed and the arrival Mackenzie at any rate book locked up.

template a shortage and had also immense cemetery. With the ex-

shine the sun, Others still bring Sultana, may be heir to all the discovered that the water, was not pansion of the European popula with precious stones which out his eighteen-year-old mother, the rure-Probably he did, but, at tion, the Moslem burying-grounds pieces of handwoven material and pomp and glory which are how his

embroidery.

Or he may not. It all the same time, he also asked for began to give way.

where, even in the busiest quer- Each gift is offered with much depende.-By H. J. Greenwall, double close type condensers..

ceremonial, The head of each Daily Express Special Correspon- Surely there could be no object ters.

tribe exclaima: "May Allah bless dent. Mr. Mackenzie lying to Mr. remnants of

the reign of qur Sovereign," and Erearley?-I never imply that at for centuries

blessing. It should be remarked cypresses, stood as relies of the the Sultan in return extends his that the Sultan of Morocco is both past.

the spiritual and temporal head of the State, and is, in point of fact, a Moorish pope.

He then left his clearance from the last port (Singapore) in the proper place at the Harbour Ofice, but as the book was not there, he was forced to leave without "en- tering" his ship

Replying to the Court. Mr. R. A. Bates, of the Clearance Office, said that the book was always locked up when the office was not open for business. This procedure had only come into force lately.

In registering a conviction, His Worship cautioned the defendant.

Has it ever

occurred! to you

WHY WE SHAKE HANDS?

in

all.

You appreciate our point is that of a complete denial of all of these allegations, do you not?

Yes..

Another Representation. Now let us come to another re- Did Mr. Iresentation-Purity. Brearley guarantee the purity of the water, too?-Mr. Brearley told me that the water was suitable for the purpose.

that on Do you remember March 14, Mr. Brearley told you that he had been going over Mr. Mackenzie's paper and had come LANDSHAKING is the most across an anlysis of the water? Hpopular form

--No.

But every-

there can still be found cemeteries, where venerable sleles the shadow of

under have.

According to a recent decision, the dead will no longer be allow ed to rest in the neighbourhood of men. Their Bones will be transferred to cemeteries situated

the

and town,

the cutside

In their are to be Cypresses will be felled. erected by the Administration of place large buildings Sacred Foundations,

SPEEDSTER FINED.

On the occasion of the festival' of Ald-El-Kebir (the Festival of the Sheep) the Sultan himself, after prayers among his people, im- mediately cuts the throat of two sheep.

One sheep is taken by a gallop. ing horseman to the end of the city, and the other rushed to the royal palace. Both sheep must ar- The Chinese driver of a motor rive at their destination before lorry to-day pleaded "guilty" be- they expire, as it is only then that a the coming year may be sure to be of civilised In the same afternoon you went fore. Mr. R. E. Lindsell, to salutation; but to this day some to his office, and he told you that charge of speeding in Connaught hoppy.

A tea party at the royal palace primitive peoples prefer to express he had sent you a letter together Road Central,

Sub-Inspector Saunders told the is ceremony, which has not mutual felicitations by rubbing with the analyala?--I don't re-

Magistrate that he followed the changed with the centuries, noses or embracing.

member. Antiquity records the grasping of hands as a legal act signifying that

In

Iather's.

BINGO" HUSBAND.

Housewife Tries to Commit Suicide.

when

Bangkok, May 30. The "bingo" boom produced an- other near tragedy last Wednesday attempted A housewife suicide so as to avoid seeing her children suffer hardship because the husband was so engrossed with the so-called game of skill that he Timely rescue, however, sayed never brought home his earnings. the woman, named Nang Hiang, wife of a certain Nai Cheng of Tambol Janasonggram.

The decision

end to

her

a quarrel which He then said that the letter was defendant's ear from the Harbour The Sultan and his gucats eft life followed

to her room. went The Euro-Hinng probably still. the office. Office to Sincere's, and defendant cross-legged on low divans which took place that morning... Nang the husband heard the parties thereto were forming a te sent out for it and the let-covered between 26 and 28 miles run round the room.

inside sounda

struggle of compact; also the hand-grasp was ler was recalled?I don't think per hour in a 200-yards stretch of pean guests are excused from ait. Suddenly the road.

ting in the Moorish fashion. considered an essential part of the that such an incident occurred.

The offence occurred at 4.45 Then with great pomp and cir- the compartment, Falling to force ancient Hindu wedding ceremony. Then it must be a fabrication?

p.m., on May 30, and the watercumstance servants come in with open the door, Nai Cheng entered In mediaeval times, when gallant-It looks that way. knights met in tournaments, it was Then a chit book was brought front was busy with traffic at the great brose platters and place the room by means of the window customary for the protagonista to to you, and Mr. Brearley handed time. shake hands to signify a truce-but you the letter, crossed that they did not implicitly trust entry in the chit book, and in- of $10. each other may be deduced from the itialled It?-It seems rather pecu- fact that they grasped one another'sllar to me that he should initial weapon-hand as a précaution against the chit book and not me,

them on low stools on either the and saw his wife dangling from out the The Magistrate Imposed a fine right or left hand side of the arch the ceiling with a rope tied around ed doorway. Then enters the her neck. Nai Cheng quickly Blashed the rope. After the wo sarver of tea:

There is placed before him a man had revived from her shock, large samovar containing bolling she was removed to the Centrul water and a vase of brass contain Hospital where she is reported to ing green rint, dried, of course. be recovering

treachery! For a man could not Now look at the chit book and of the world ls-that there is only easily whip out his sword with his would you say that it is not about one per cent of the persons left hand and thus take his opponent straightforward document? The I have met who would willingly, On another platter are numerous Questioned as to her motive in that she wished to escape from the. unawares,

chit book is all right, but the tall a lle, although there are many glasses, each with the royal mono- taking her life, Nang Hiang said To-day sportsmen on opposing initials A,B. after the name of who merely made mistakes. Then gram eldes shake hands after a victory as Anderson Meyer & Co. do, not will you agree with me that in The serv) of tea puts a little agony of having to see her children as a matter of course and custom seem very straightforward to me, the absence of your falling to re mint in each glass, and then pours suffer starvation as Nal Cheng was and without reference, except by the Well, here is the original press collect the incident relating to the over it the boiling water. On an eo affected with the "bingo" mania force of tradition, to the weapon copy book. Do you seriously sag. analysis, you will say that there other platter are numerous little that he had lost all interest in his was Juch intention In Mr. Brear cakes. Servants then take platters family. He would play "bingo" hand The act of handshaking is gest that it is also faked? No.

fey a mind of sending you the of the tea and cakes, and with and never bring home his earn- not hard to explain, being, as it is,Give Devil His Due

much ceremony hand them to the ings. In spite of explanations anÍ persuasions, he would not stop try- e spontaneous gesture denoting unity and friendliness, preferable amongst

guests.

Tes is sipped and the little cakes, ing to win, at the game of akl}]," eaten, and each converses with his he said Bangkok. Daily Mail. undemonstrative, people to any other form of sal

Then you will give the devil his analyele? Yes, that might have duc. And I must place Mr. Breartean his intention, but I never re

ceived it ley in that category Yes

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