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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1930.

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SPORT NOTICES

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

DR

THE CHINA MAIL.

FATE OF ANDREE.

A STUDY OF PARALLEL CASES.

PROBABLE SOLUTION.

Stefansson,

the

RAFT PROGRAMMES and ENTRY FORMS for the

Vilhjalmur Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Extra Race Meetings to be held famous polar explorer, writes to on SATURDAY, 29th November the Editor of the Times: and 6th and 13th December, 1990, "The (Andree) hút was built respectively, may be obtained at close to a cliff where it is most This sentence from Dr. the Race Course, Hong Kong Club steep."

Stubbendorff's dispatch às publish and Causeway Bay Stables.

Entries will close at. 12 o'clocked in The Times of September 8 Noon on the following dates:--

Thursday, 20th November, 1930. Monday, 1st December, 1930. Monday, 8th December, 1990.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE.

BOY'S ADVENTURE.

SINGAPORE STUDENT RUNS AWAY FROM HOME.

A COURT SEQUEL.

Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 1. A Jewish boy of 13 years of age named Ezechiel Manasseh, a student at St. Joseph's Institution, Singa- pore appeared in the local Police Court yesterday, with his mother and father. The boy was detained by the Railway Police Kuala Lumpur on gives the probable solution of the his arrival here on Thursday morn

we studying from Johore Bharu, in the com- Andree tragedy, it parallel cases.

pany of a Tamli named Munasamy,

HALF YEARLY GEN-cut away.

GENERAL NOTICES

NOTICE.

MOTOR CAR DRAW.

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

In the spring of 1853 Captain travelling on the mall train from Kellett was at Dealy Island, near Singapore. the south coast of Melville Island, The man Munasamy, 23 years of with stores intended for the relief age, was charged in Court, before ot Sir John Franklin's expedition. Mr. G. A. de C. de Moubray, with He built, for Franklin's possible having enticed away the boy, use, a hut close to a steep cliff and Manasseh, a miner, from the lawful Alled it with 280 days' provisions guardianship of his father at 9.30 for 68 men. Then he sail-a.m. on October 29.

Had Franklin come The accused denied the charge and TERAL MEETING OF Voting along before the snows of Mr. G. W. Lloyd, of the Railway Members will be held at the Club Autuma, he would have found Police, explained the facts of the

standing trim and case to the Magistrate: • pa House, Happy Valley, on MON- the house

Ran Away from Home? DAY, 24th November, 1930, at everything within perfectly ar But in the first severe ranged.

Mr. Lloyd explained that from 6.15 p.m.

ALL Members are cordially In-blizzard of the Winter the snow the enquiries made, it appeared that and far on Dealy the boy Manasseh attended the, St. vited to attend and participate in that fell near any discussion which may ensue. faland was swept before the wind Joseph's Institution at Singapore till it drifted over the edge of the' and ran away from his father's By Order of the Stewards,

cliff and settled in the lee gently house at Wilkle Road, Singapore, as C. B. BROWN,

and steadily upon the roof of the he did not like the idea of his becom Secretary house.

One of the typical three- ing a boarder at the Institution Hong Kong, 14th Nov., 1930., day Aretic stormus would bury any He left Singapore with another Chi- such house in such a position. A nese boy who lived close to his house stranger arriving at Dealy Island and went by train from Newton in mid-October would have trudged Station to Johore Bharu where he along far above the roof, discover- met the accused. The accused asked ing no trace and suspecting no him to accompany him to Kuala thing below him except an ordinary Lumpur, presumably to use him in drift like those at the base of all the streets for begging, and from gathered the other cliffs.

enquiries made, It was When my three companions and that the boy had already been used myself arrived at Dealy Island on for this purpose, for he went to the! June 28, 1917, the Summer had house of a lady in Johore Bharu and already been hot for weeks. The got money to bring himself and alopes were green, and in the low- accused to Kuala Lumpur. This THE COMMITTEE hereby give landa' were the grassfields which lady was even good enough to send notice that the undermention-Lieutenant Metham, of McClin- the accused and the boy in her motor ed tickets which have been re tock's expedition, described as car to the Railway Station, as she ported LOST are cancelled:-

"much like British meadows.", was told that the boy had lost all and hia There was no snow left anywhere his money in the train except in the bottoms of deep father was in Kuala Lumpur and ravines and in the leo of a few that the accused was his servant. elifts. We know where.,the Kellett! Accused and the boy left Johore house was, and found a corner of Bahru for Kuala Lumpur. In the it sticking out from the drift. Had, meantime a wire had been received we been there a week earlier we from the police in Singapore asking should have had to sink a shaft the police here detain two boys, a A Direccao do Club Lusitano through the snow to reach it, but Tamil named Munasamy and one tem a honra de convidar os Exmos. these were terrifically hot days, Manasseh. Srs. Socios do Club de Recreio. and 48 hours after we arrived two- On the arrival here of the mail d'Associacao Portugueza de So-thirds of the house had come out, train from Singapore on Thursday corros Mutuos, da Liga Portugueza Every winter something between morning, the Railway Police were e do Club Lusitano e suas Exmas. several score and several hundred on the look out and detained the two Familias e os demais Membros da feet of drift pile upon the Kellett persons referred to. However, one Comunidade Portugueza para ве house, although the snowfall of, of the boys (Munasamy) turned out reunirem

de Melville Island, is lighter.. pet to be a man of 23 years of age Camoss" do Club Lusitano па Quarta-feira 19 do corrente, as Square raile than that of Scotland, (laughter).

and the accumulation is due mere- horas de tarde, a fim de assistirem a Recepeso em honra de Sus Ex cellencia O Governador de Macau. Senhor Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa e sua Exma. Esposa.

Havera em seguida Cha e danca A fim de que esta recepcao seja revestida do maior brilho possivel a Direccao pede comparencia de todos os Socios e suna Exmas. Familias e os demais Membros da Comunidade Portugueza.

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Tickets Nos. 1101-1125,

CLUB LUSITANO.

CONVITE.

sala "Luiz

A. E. S. ALVES,

Difficulties of Law.

ly to the concentration in one place The alleged offence of kidnapping of what falls over a great area. would be committed from the time The weight of this snow had not the accused took the boy away from only broken in the roof, but had him at Johore. There was a differ crushed the packing boxes that ent law in Johore and a postpone- contained the stores. Only the ment would be 'necessary to enable barrels were strong enough to en- the railway police to proceed to dure the pressure.

Johore and make the necessary ar- In January, 1914, the Karluk, rangements and take statements one of the ships of my third ex- from others copnected with the case. pedition, was drifting in the pack "As Your Worship knows there is ice north-east of Wrangel Island. some diffkulty about the law where Four of her man were sent by the arrests are concerned. There are Secretario. Captain to land supplies on Herald padl fielde and little portions of land Hong Kong, 18 de Novembro, Island, just east of Wrangel. They in certain parts where a man can [1930.

did not return, nor was their fate; hop across from one part to the known until three years ago, when other and say 'you cannot arrest me the Lane-Snow expedition found here but you can there' (laughter)." their remains. They had pitched) His Worship postponed the case camp under the lee of a cliff, the until November 7, so as to give time BLOW had drifted over them just for the police to further investigate as it buried the Keltatt house on The accused was remanded in polico Dealy Island a half century before custody-Malay Mail. and they had died in their beda with fuel in their primus stoves! and food

The Toronto Industrial Commis. all around them. Andree's camp was in a place tion announced in extension of the where the snow, eddying in a lee pinnt of the Northern Pigment Com behind a cliff, would fall like pany Limited, New Toronto, manu. softest down, but eventually to facturers of colouring substances pack into a stifling blanket of for such. commodities as paints, cements, stuccon and rubber. There crushing weight.

How death came to our men on were two new colour tanks, a new Herald Island and to Andree on drying and other processing equip White Island is vivid to four mem- ment, which doubled the plant's The company began bers of my second expedition.capacity.,

business in the Queen City in August For other reasons than a snow last year and already has an export

Public Auctions GET Frères

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

Auction

ON

THURSDAY, November 20, 1930,-

commencing at 2.80 p.m.

at No. 110, The Peak

(4, Mountain View).

A Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

Comprising:-

Halatands, Chesterfield Couch and Chairs, Teak Dining Table, Sideboard, Chairs, Glass Cabinet,

PIPPERMINT

The

Queen Creme&Menthe

An excelent digestin Laken met The most refreshing,

long drink when

Laken with

Soda

Water

Ice Chest, Sliver Ware, New Cat Distilled at Rever. (Hey Garonne France blanketing, we had too little air in business with 15 foreign countries.

lery, Ornament, Pictures, Brass Ware Curtains, Carpets, etc., etc. Teak Bedstead, Teak Dressing Case, Teak Chest of Drawers, Table, Table Lamps, Table Fans,

Also

A Quantity of Blackwood Ware. On View from Wednesday, No vember 19, 1930.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.;

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctiotisers.

Hong Kong, November 14, 1930

by

THE Underaigned have received

Auction

ON: FRIDAY, November 21, 1980, commencing at 11 am.

at No. 86, Humphreya' Building.

Kowloon.

A Large Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITUREMEN

On View from Thursday, Nov ember 20-1930.

Hong Kong, November 14,

by GET Friñes since 1796.

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Pop an EVANS PASTILLE into your mouth instead, Their antiseptic vapours will soon relieve you of that cold.

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a camp where we were burning

just such primus stove as theira.

Two of us collapsed without warn.

ing, the third had the strength to the soft snow, coming to the sur- crawl out through an open door, face as a man out of water. Thla but not to stand afterwards, and would be as if they bad rushed the fourth, a little stronger, was from a burning house when either too weak to help the others for panic or mere haste prevented quarter of an hour: But he had equipment. In their case mitteas the presence, of mind to extinguish or footgear may have been want the primus and to arrange for the ing, or possibly the over-garments. reviving fresh air to get into the Death would then come because, camp. We agreed later that thore ill-clad and unequipped, they were had been no warning: except that unable to burrow down into the some of us thought there might drift to get at more clothing. have been a sensation of pressure These parallels and this reason- on the temples. For the insidious ing explain all the facts chroniclad carbon monoxide gas is colourless, in The Times dispatches. The odourless, and the bringer of an Andree house was discovered tight! underaded because, unsuspected against the cliff. The body of at death.

least one volim was found in the

If our men and Andree's did not house. Some of the bodies were die painlesslyfn their aleap or so little decayed that. It cannot be around the primus cooking a meal, explained by anything except it may be that when the snow burial in Autumn by a snowdrift gradually buried their camp and that kapt getting desper and shut off the ventilation it caused deeper throughout the Winter, and lack of oxygen at a time when no was so huge by Spring that the CO was being generated. Warned last of it resisted the melting of by a stifling sensation, or possibly any except the warmest Summers. the going out of a candle flame, In the case of these heroic "men one or more of. Andree's party or there is a crumb of relief in feel- of ours may have broken out of the ing that death came to them un- house and struggled up through expected and painless.

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