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News in Brief,

As the result of attempting "sul- cide by jumping from the first floor verandah, of 43, Austin Road, Kowloon, a Chinese named Cheung Fong (30) is now in the Kowloon Hospital in a serious' condition.

We learn that the whereabouts

of Mr. E. Larmour, of the P.W.D.,

that he has been staying with a

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TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1930.

|DERRICK COLLAPSE.

INQUEST OPENED ON THE

VICTIMS.

-

CORONER & SUB-CONTRACTOR.

RADIO

NEW VENTURE AT LOCAL STUDIO.

TALKS ON MUSIC,

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who had been missing since Mon-i The Gloucester Building tragedy, day last, have been traced, and which occurred on the morning of wil be pleased to learn that the Hong Kong radio enthusiasts friend in the Colony for some June 28, when a derrick collapsedlceal Broadcasting Studio, Post days past. Mr. Larmour is now on the fourth floor of the building Office Building, are embarking on in hospital.

venture which will un- and caused four Chinese workmen a new The Chinese who was discharged to fall to their death into the road doubtedly be much appreciated.

This new venture was detailed at the Assizes yesterday on

below, was recalled yesterday after to a China Mail reporter who called charge of larceny of some clothing noon when Mr. R. E. Lindsell and at the Studio this morning. at Aberdeen, was sentenced to two Coroner's jury opened an inquiry Commencing to-morrow, there years' hard labour for returning!

will be delivered a weekly series Several previ-into the circumstances attending of talks on music, and those who from banishment.

convictions were proved the death of the four victims of have listened in at Home during against him.

the accident.

the last three years will recall the Ed. Ye Lee, a Chinese Sub-con-livered by Sir Walford Davies en- popularity of a similar series de- Falling from a height of 12

tractor, said that the derrick was titled "Music and the ordinary feet whilst walking on some cas ings at the Kowloon Dock, Chan supplied by him for hoisting steel

Histener." of the Hong, a coolie empleyed at the girders to the fourth floor

The local studio is fortunate in building under construction. The dock, received injuries to his head, derrick was hoisted on June 26. having secured the services of Mr. legs and body, which necessitat-

Cyril Dudley Bartlett, who has fourth It was supported on the ed, his removal to the Kwong Wah floor level b five planks laid criss- undertaken to broadcast a similar

His condition ls' not

cross on the steel frame, and held Bartlett has chosen for the title series for local listeners. Mr. in position by wire ropes, top and of his series: "Music for the all bottom. He did not superintend

brow." The subject of the first day, Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2364, the erection of the derrick, but aptalk will be the introduction and situated at Prince Edward Road. pointed two of his men to see to a plea for toleration: The talks, was sold to Mr. Loke Yung-cheong Both these men had had experience which will take about fifteen minutes each, will be accompanied of 192, Queen's Road Central for in such work before.

The derrick was put in nae on by pianoforte examples. $36,200. The upset price was

They $25,010. The land has an area of the 26th without incident.-

He was will be broadcast each Wednesday it collapsed on the from the studio at 8.40 p.m. about 53,830 sq. feet and its annual present when-

29th at about 10 o'clock. One rental is $370.

Band Concert Relay.

Hospital. serious.

At the Crown Land Office yester-

stanchion was sent up safely at At 9 o'clock to-morrow night

A Japanese named Tatsusabu about 9 am.. and the accident ocZ.B.W. will relay the public Band Mattumaga (39), of 956, Wanchal/curred when the second stanchion concert from the Kowloon Foot- Rend, died at the Government was being hoisted.

ball Club ground. Witness was in another part of Civil Hospital at 10.40 p.m., yes-

If bad weather necessitates a terday from alcoholic polsoning. the site when he heard a cracking postponement of this event there He ran up to see what was will be a dance programme broad- He was admitted to the hospital noise,

the matter and noticed that three cast from the studio. in an unconscious condition at

The studio concert on Friday derrick had broken and fallen to will include two newcomers to the gaining consciousness.

the ground. The derrick was Hong Kong Studio. They are On the Mr. and Mrs. Leib, who will ren-

taipan, whose head well nigh ap430 and expired later without re- of the planks which supported the

proached the celling, so great was his height, gave unto the Lilli- putan scribe one look that was

truly meant to shivel him up and shriek for mercy. But fortunate-

A Chinese girl named Ho Yit hanging by the wire ropes. (5), living at Mok Ming Ha vil-ground were four of his men lying der vocal duets. lage, Tsinwan, was killed at 11.30 injured. They had fallen with the

Other artistes for this concert on Sunday when she was Pianks, and when he saw them will be Mr. Bailey, Mr. Annisa, Mr. Jeeves, Mr. Fleming, and Mr. Witness did not ascertain how Bartlett.

3.m.

On July

ly he produced forthwith all his knocked down by a public motor they were all unconscious. data convicting Officialdom of car on the Main Road. The girl

she suddenly ap- the accident was caused. procrastination and lethargy and was hit when

peared on the road from behind 2 he went up to the fourth of wounding the susceptibilities another car, giving the driver of level, but by this time another der

at

floor

Saturdays' programme will in- clude an organ recital at mid-day, by Mr. Frederick Mason, R.A.C.O., L.T.C.L., organist.

The church service on Sunday will be relayed from St. John's

Included in Monday evening's

of bereaved citizens of that great the public vehicle no time to pull rick had been put in position.

"A Disgrace. country. Whereupon, as if by a "r

Coroner: Here you have three of miracle, the Great One came An Indian constable was injured your men killed, and yet you say Cathedral. down from his lofty pedestal, dis- yesterday afternoon whilst direct- that you did not go up and see how missed the scribe with a mild cau- ing traffic the junction of the accident had been caused? programme will be another short. tion for prying into the sacrosant Queen's Road West and Pokfulam You ought to be ashamed of your-play by members of the Hong

Road. At about 1 p.m. he had self. It is a disgrace.

Kong A.D.C. Details of this will books of Police Stations, but add-signalled car to pass along Lee gave as his opinion that the be published in the China Meil ed that if he the said scribe-Queen's Road, when a lorry, which derrick must have slipped, pro-later. would but deign to call upon him was coming down Pokfulam Road bably due to the supporting planks

behind the pointsman, skidded slipping. The planks must have PLOT TO KILL POLICE in person at ten of th clock each when pulled up by its driver. The teen rotten.. He did not examine morning-Sundays and holidays lorry bumped into the constable, the bottom of the derrick after the excluded-he would

It

assuredly who was knocked down, receiving a accident. If the stanchion had

knocked against the derrick, give unto him personally all such cut on his forehead.

would not have caused it to slip out news for his newspaper as could: COURT OF APPEAL.

reasonably and légitimately be

Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 15, 1930. published. And so the Pact was

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of position. The new derrick was located by the same men who under- took the erection of the previous

one.

1

INGENIOUS BOMB DEVICE INJURES FIVE.

Simla, June 19.. Bombs, exploded at Lahore, Lyalpur. Gujranwala, Sheikapra, and Amritsar last night,

An ingenious device to lure the of police to their death was contain-

Chan Yun, who was mon- tioned by Lze AE one

Chief and all his co-workers re-Lumpur, to-day, C. Brown a young the hoisting of the derrick to the second bomb of a more dead-

later, when the police arrived on the scene.

Five of the police were injur

the

AIR ACE KILLED.

$

im-

FAMOUS PILOT CRASHES IN NEW ZEALAND,

Captain Saunders, the well-known air pilot, was killed recently when

ing the planks, which fell to the ground. The planks were not secured to the steel frame.

At this stage the inquiry was adjourned until to-morrow noon.

after-

“QUOTH THE RAVEN."

constable, seriously.

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China | Mail," July 15, 1920.3

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the men. whom he appointed in the modus operandi at all In the F.M.S. Court of Appeal, ed to erect the derrick, sad placca, which consisted of 1 Once upon a time, in a certain/other' better, for did not the said in the Supreme Court, Kuala that whilst he was responsible for "mfld" bomb being exploded and Crown Colony, rumours became edve their daily portion of publi- European formerly employed as fourth floor level, he was not rely nature being timed to explode rife, that there was unreasonable

The Little and Co., in their prasible for its erection. delay in granting burial permits city, and did not that Scribe's an assistant by Messrs. John

men who knew all about it were Journal increase in circulation (Kuala Lumpur store, ap-

dead. On the morning of the ac- with consequent irritating incon- venience to the relatives of the and in reputation by virtue of the ipealed against conviction and cident he was one of a gang of six ed, two of them, an inspector and

authentic newa that it was thus sentence of nine months' departed. Officialdom denied

prisonment imposed by the Hon. engaged in holsting stanchions. enabled to publish in greater Mr. Justice P. A. Farrer Manby, The accident occurred when the slackness and lethargy. But the

second stanchion was sent up. quantity day by day-Sundays at Selangor, Assizes, on a charge witness was standing on the steel rumours did persist. And it came and holidays excepted? Selah! of theft of jewellery and money frame about 30 feet from the der- to pass that one scribe of the This fable is herewith narrated from his employers, on March 3rick when it slipped and fell, break-

Their Lordships summarily re- Noble Order of Ye Griffins pon-In the pious hope that its moral jected the appeal. dered long and deeply over the shall appeal to those "drest in a matter and then was inspired by little brief authority" in £ brain-wave of Sherlock-

Colony of Hong Kong in their Holmesitis. Whereupon he get

relations with the "Gentlemen of out on a great trek that led him

the Press." from Police Station to Police Station, all well and truly manned by the natives of the country, but whose language was, as yet un- known to him. But such was his persuasiveness and hía personality that the scribe had unfolded to him at each Station all the books reached it concerning the death of

After the War he acted as King's mond Fontaine, the plant patho- for which its former tenants were and all the documents relating to a Chinese worker at a dockyard, courier to Berlin, and was Interlogist and ardent admirer of ejected, and he has rooms to spare burial permits, of all of which he which story, it was very careful engaged by the Lithuanian Govern-Edgar Allan Poe, who, with a for lodgers. He has taken in two

to say, it could not confirm. It ment in special air service. He chisel, "edited" the monument, to Names if required. made copious notes, until his was alleged that a European was afterwards served three years in Poe in Wyman Park recently.

Armed with a flashlight and. journeyings took him to the office involved, but even this could not India, and from 1923 was engaged chicel, Fontaine went to the park of the Registrar of Demises be confirmed. whom he laid under tribute by Folice reports supplied to the MR. ROBERT YOUNG. virtue of the ease by which he was Press, no further reference has able to prove that Officialdom was been made to the matter, especial-

Fontains declares that in the by a majority to support the requisi-,,. both a Procrastinator and an Assly as the head of the dockyard in question, when interviewed by a

original work "mortal" is eintion of the Ceylon, Straits, and And it next came to pass that China Mall representative, assert-

London, June 6 gular. He had just finished re F.M.S. Cricket Associations to the that scribe did sit down and com-el that he knew nothing about it.

The political correspondent of the moving the letter "a" with his M.C.C. In favour of the Crown The China Mail is now in a post- Daily Herald states that Mr. Robert chfeel when he was caught by a Colonies being represented in the mit unto writing all that he had tion to say, that a Chinese was Young, a member of the House of policeman and arrested. next Test match against Australla. heard and all that he had seen, slightly injured in a dockyard, but Commons, is likely to be the next A number of Baltimorears, in- The minority held the view that as

'AN EXPLANATION.

On July 6 the Sunday Herald re- ferred to a story that had

Lots of people in Hong Kong take in lodgers so as to reduce the high outgo for rent. When the Government grants one of its servants a free house, does it ap- prove of his taking in lodgers? We know of one rather highly placed and fairly well paid off- cial, recently granted as quarters Residents of Baltimore are a house that was expensively rallying to the defence of Ed-bought for quite another purpose

his aeroplane crashed at Tea POE ADMIRER CHISELS POET'S

wamutu, New Zealand.

.

He had a distinguished record. During the War be served in France in the 60th Squadron- and bagged ten German 'planes.

As nothing has in commercial flying, ance- appeared in the ordinary

LIKELY TO BE TASMANIAS GOVERNOR

MONUMENT.

and worked for two hours alter-

Raven""Dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream be-

ing the quotation from "The

fare.Prosthet

Ten Years Hence.

From the "China Mall" of

July 15, 1940.]

At a meeting of the Hong Kong Cricket Association 'It was resolved

Recluding Mre. Sally Kinsolving, England now depended mainly on

the publication of which did veri- after being treated in a hospital Governor of Tasmanis.. ly create a sensation and make for a few days was discharged. It is expected that Rev. H. president of the Poetry Society of Anglo-Scots to win, there was no This of course, satisfactorily dis- Dunnico (Deputy Chairman of Com Maryland, agree with Fontaine used of any players being sent from Great Officialdom feel mighty poses of the rumour of the death mittees) will succeed Mr. Young and call him a martyr to the the Crown Colonies. diminutive. The anger of the til of the Chinese rumour that an Duty Speaker.

August fres

no bounds and could easily have been scotched on 123g the night of July 6 had the Police

WEST

conilded the actual facts to the Sliddy Herald instead of adopt

Van unreasonable hush-hush!!

cause of truth and beauty" They preidet that he will be acquittedAt the instance of the General

In addition to chiselling the Chamber of Commerce the Govern

Fontaine worked for nearly ment is introducing a Daylight an hour removing a dash of black Saving Bill to become effective dura wing to depression the Ewo paint which had bemirched the ing the Winter months in the

laratia for Home

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