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are not showing sufficient energy in providing footpaths by the side of roads under their control.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1930.

LENOX SIMPSON.

GUNMEN.'

.LATEST BULLETIN.

Apart from the abolition of the STORY OF THE OUTRAGE BY speed limit, the greatest interest will be aroused by the issue by the Minister of directions for the guidance of road-users, and it is understood that these directions will include directions for the guidance of pedestrians in the safe and reasonable use of the froads.

which legislation is long overdue, and many provisions in the new Act, mainly of a technical char- acter, will meet with general ap- proval. Perhaps the most con- troversial clause is the abolition of the speed limit for light cars and motor cycles. The Minister

mean

|AMBULANCE CORPS.

GOVERNOR TO PRESENT MEDALS & MEDALLIONS.

AT. KING'S COLLEGE.

Tientsin,. Yesterday. His Excellency, Sir William The attempted assassination of| Peel, K.B.E., C.M.G.. Patron of St. Mr. Lenox Simpson occurred be- John Ambulance Brigade, has tween 7.15 and 7.80 p.m. last very kindly consented, to present night at the Commissioner's oll-the Long Service Medals, medal.

and which has been

Every one, especially those who cial residence in the ex-German lions and labels to those Brigade. concession. Mr. Simpson WBS members who are entitled to re- intend to spend their leave in about 10 feet from his study ceive them, on Monday at 6. p.m. motoring tours at Home, will door, conducting the visitors in at King's College.

A Prize Drawing: hope that the optimism of the side, and was struck squarely in the small of the back by the first Minister of Transport as-to-the bullet, the second one missing A Prize Drawing has been in efficacy of his Act in reducing ac-probably owing to the flurry of augurated for supplementing the The miscreants funds of the St. John Ambulance cidents will be fully realised, and the sailants. the effects of its operation will be hurriedly left in the hired car in Brigade.

which they had arrived, the ser The object is fo extend the awaited with great anxiety by all vants being too terrified to raise motor ambulance service, a zer sections of the community. If the alarm until it was too late. vice of which the Colony is great- the Act does not result in a fairly When the Police arrived Mr.ly in need, rapid and drastic reduction in the Simpson was taken to the Ger- advocated in the Press recently. pian American Hospital, from The first prize is a motor car of road casualties, further steps will where a bulletin was issued late the value of $3,000; and second have to be taken to deal with this that night, stating that his life Crize, articles to the value of appalling national evil.

no immediate danger. $1,000; third prize, articles to the However, it is understood that the value of $500; and seven other bullet lodged in the lower part of prizes to the value of $100 each. the spine, and complete paralysis] Tickets, $2 each, may be obtain- of the lower part of the body mayed from Brigade members, Fin- result.

ance Committee, the Hon. Trea- According to the houseboy, all surer or the Corps Secretary.

assailants were At the present time the Brigade Searchlight practices will take three of the place at Lyemoon on October 10, 11dressed in foreign clothes, and one posacaacs one motor ambulance recently loaned remained in the car while the which has been Fand-12, from 6 to 10 p.m. on each other two entered the residence. to the Government, while one of

day.

One presented a card bearing the its ambulances is out of commis- name Fu Lu-lin, member of the sien. enlarged Plenary Session, but it The following are particulars of is presumed that the name is en-service of the St. John Ambulance tirely fictitious.

Brigade motor ambulance while In the charge of the Fire Brigade as a Government ambulance:

News in Brief.

A human skull and bones were unearthed by coolies engaged digging work on a site in Shanghal Street, Mongkok. No suspicious circumstance is attached to the discovery.

The master of the O.S.K. 9.a. Havre Maru, which arrived here from Yokohama at 7 a.m. to-day. reported at the Harbour Office that the Chief Officer died from heart

Sailure at sea.

was fa

From 2.7.30 to 23.8.30-Distance

Number of patients carried-

Number of enses attended-156, Thus, in less than two months. the above work was done by one

On receipt of the card Mr. Simpson came out and greeted the callers, preceding them into the study. As the houseboy was travelled-1.3274 miles. closing the door, two shots

rang out and the miscreants rushed 156. from the house into the waiting car, which was rapidly driven away.

The police of all the concessions ambulance alone,

The ambulanca is still during. were informed of the incident, and Sybil Joseph was found to be smart work on the part of a detec-duty at the Fire Brigade Station. It is due to the crying needs of of Transport contends that such acting abnormally in Pedder Street tive in the British police force re- abolition will not

that last night at about eight o'clock. A sulted in the tracing of the car, the public made known through large crowd of Chinese gathered and the arrest of the driver at a the medium of the Press, that the motor cars will travel any faster around her, and the Polke removed late hour last night. The driver Ambulance Brigade has taken the than at present, as already the her to the Mental Home, speed limit of twenty miles per hour is generally ignored; but it

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professed to know nothing beyond matter in hand and is endeavour- the fact that the caring to the utmost to supplement Was summoned by telephone its existing ambulance service and . The friends of Mrs. M. Reynolds from the Tajei Hotel, in to provide the Colony with an effl- is a matter of common observa-of 25 Prince Edward Road, will be the Japanese Concession, and clent motor ambulance service, tion that since the proposal to pleased to learn that she is pro- merely followed the instructions ready for any emergency which

gressing favourably in the Kowloon of his three passengers.

might arise, abolish the speed limit has been Hospital, in which she has been a

Driver at Pistol Point.

For this purpose funds under discussion during the past patient since September 24, follow-

needed. This is the first occasion Tientsin, Yesterday." year, the speed of cars both in ing a motor accident in Nathan

The bullet was located in Mr. on which the Brigade has appeal. Read near the Majestic Theatre.

Simpson's spine by X-ray, and ited for public support, and it is towns and the countryside has

is understood that an operation earnestly hoped that the same will

be forthcoming. noticeably and 'substantially in-

A Coroner's jury, who eat with will be performed this afternoon, road Mr. E. H. Williams yesterday after-in

The Brigade motto la "For the creased. This has made

an endeavour to remove it. judgment on the part of the pedes-noon, returned a verdict of death Although serious, his condition is Good of Humanity and the Rollef trian more difficult than ever, and by misadventure in an inquest on a not considered entirely hopeless. of Suffering." and this alone Chinese woman named Tong Mec He is being attended by several should enlist sympathy and sup many more deaths must have (67) who died following an accident local British and German doctors,

port.

A Donation been caused by the failure of in which she was knocked down by and it is learned that Dr.

The Hon. Treasurer acknow pedestrians in crossing roads to a motor lorry in Main Street, Ferguson, of the Peking Union

Medical College, has also been ledges with thanks the receipt of a summoned here.

cheque for $100 from Lady Mar NEW MOTOR LAWS. adjust themselves to these higher Shaukiwan, on September 22.

Members of the Union Church, speeds. The failure of the Gov-

Interrogated by the Police, the garet Ho Tung. Damo of Grace, ernment to apply tests for drivers Hong Kong, and their friends arrested car driver states that he Order of St. John

asked to At long last a gleam of sanity was a further disappointment to are

reserve Fri- was kept at pistol point from the for purchase of material for the day, October 24, on which time of his departure from the Nursing Division which have been appears to have invaded British those who believe that road safety t B jumble sale will be scene of the crime, and was made formed into a Sewing Guild with legislation, and blind men, luna-and not the quicker circulation of beld. Contributions of clothing to drive in a roundabout route to the object of making articles re tica, and other unintentional mur-traffic should be the primary func-and other suitable articles will be the rear of the French conces quired by the St. John Hospital, derers of the hapless pedestrian tion of the Ministry,

received at the church hall every sion, where the three alighted and Jerusalem, in response to an ap Wednesday and Saturday morning. ordered him to drive away.

peal from that organisation. are to have their habits curbed. It is true that the Act provides

Many theories are being ad

Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of the This, at any rate, is the promise severer penalties for dangerous An application for the confisca-vanced for the crime, which is

A-Chancellor of the, Exchequer, has of the new Road Traffic Act in driving, but these in themselves tion of 19 indecent postcards found undoubtedly a political one.

at the ground floor of 493 Nathan though the attackers spoke Feng-recovered sufficiently from her slight Britain, which is at once one of will not directly contribute to Road, a stationary shop, was made tienese, it is believed that this attack of ptomaine poisoning, to the sanest and most needed curb the dangerous motorist, as by Detective-Sergeant M. Naughton may have been merely a ruse to leave Badgastein. Austria, for pieces of legislation ever framed almost invariably prosecutions for before. Mr. H. R. Batters this throw the Police off the scent. by a Home Government. For, a dangerous driving ate the Police the application, and the Sergeant accomplice who removed the bag- morning. His Worship granted The movements of the fourth

The Rev. H. J. Carpenter, vicar of though the new Act is mainly con Court sequels of accidents. The said that he would have the pictures gage of all four from the hotel, Wrangthorn, Leeds, is teaching New cerned with the regulation of Ministry attaches importance to destroyed.

simultaneous with the departure Testament Greek to 42 mon and of the other three for the crime, women who wish to study the Testar automobiles, the safety and the employment of, police patrols amenities of pedestrians are ob- to pursue dangerous drivers, but

would indicate that the quartette meat in its original language: left town immediately. Reuter. viously affected by it.

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Later.

Laut Man, a motor lorry driver, reported to the Police that on this method of detention-will Wednesday-last-he-was driving his Applicants for driving licences only increase the dangers of the vehicle along Sha Tau Kok Road, when he had to swerve to avold two

Tientsin, Later. Bell, has been appointed acting are now required to make a de roads in the process.

men on the roadway. The lorry ran

Mr. Lenox Simpson's condition Commissioner. claration of fitness and must be The obligation for the motorito a padl field, and he received continues relatively unchanged, Evening Report. able to read a motor car number driver to hold an insurance policy minor injuries to his hands and his recovery, though on account Interviewed by Reuter this

and hopes are still entertained for face. Another coolle, who was on plate with or without glasses, at against third-party risks will be the lorry, was also slightly injured of the seriousness of the wound, evening, one of the doctors at- thirty yards' distance. We trust of value to pedestrian victims of They were attended by a doctor at these hopes are necessarily slen tending Mr. Simpson, while inclin that the driver with one arm, the motor accidents in certain circum-| Talpo. cripple, and the neurasthenic will stances, and will redress" griev- equally come under this restric ances in these cases in which

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ed to be non-committal," stated It is learned that the bullet that his life was not in imminent has aplintered the vertebrae, danger, at least for the present, which is pressing on the spinal though he admitted that the Cord, causing paralysis of the operation for removal of the bullet lower limbs. "An operation for re-might prove critical.

moval of the bullet, which is a It appears that some of the very delicate task, has not yet patient's intestinal organs are Meantime, the patient retains Mre. Simpson arrived from been attemptedy M also severely injured.

tion. The obvious question to ask hitherto, injured pedestrians GLOVES LONG AND SHORT. In forming an estimate of the have been unable to obtain dam- value of the new Act is to what ages from unmured motorists extent it contributes to the great who financially were men of straw, and gloves of inaxpected materials ler safety of the pedestrian in This is a clause which should be are all fashionable, but | view of the fact that last year, out extremely valuable to local dressed woman does not choose consciousness, though nobody is Shanhaikwan this afternoon and glove which is going to out-weigh allowed to see him; and his suffer, was admitted to see her husband of the 6,696 people killed in road authorities, in protecting pedes the rest of her attire. To go with ings are being alleviate by the adora short time, during which accidents in Great Britain, rather trian and residential amenities in a gossamer afternoon frock, there ministration of drugs the patient conversed freely, more than half were pedestrians, the restriction of prohibition of are pretty specimens in mllance silke It is learned that Mr. Simpson Mr. Simpson is unable to giva one quarter were motor cyclists, véliicles from pecified roads, with lightly-embroidered gauntlets was recently warned by Chinese any clue as to the identity of his were hard and backs decorated to match: Or friends that an attempt might be would-be assassins, though, it is which, for vari

the gauntlet is jewelled, and then it the idea, taking no precautions quarter the attack was instigat made on his life, but he flouted believed he suspecte from what unhuitable for tor trame

is the vogue to have a necklace or whatsoever for his personal ed. It now eventuates that the nother clause declares it to be earrings which coincide...Very long safety of three assailants wore Chingehan

gloves In bright colours are offered for eveningwear, but whiter and installed as Chinese Superinten mistakenly called "foreign Mr Han, Lim-sun has been duly, uniforma, which the houseboy pale beige are more popular, and dent of Customs, and orders have clothes they are worn unadorned the been issued to the present stan to The police in all the

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