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Hong Kong, Friday, May 15, 1931.

FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1931,

SOPHIE TUCKER'S DRESSES.

SHATIN RAILWAY

SMASH.

Abnormal Fall of Rain.

TRAIN CREW'S STORIES.

Attempt to Avoid Duty.

PENALTY OF £40.

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proximately £4,400,000. In ur- |riving at the volume of goods re- presented by this figure allow- ance must be made made for the fact that world wholesale prices have dropped about 30 per cent. (.e. £1,000 worth of goods now represents a much greater volume than it would a year or

At the resumed inquiry yester- so ago).

Sophie Tucker (Mrs. Lackay), day, by the Coroner and a special the music half and cabaret artiste. Total imports into Hong Kong jary, into the circumstances of the of Grosvenor House, Park Lane, W., for the above-mentioned period recent railway smash, evidence was summoned before Mr. Gill, at amounted to £$642,399,000 (ap-was taken from Mr. R. M. Hender- Westminster

In mail week, for son, Assistant Director of Public being kacigly proximately £39,313,000).

Works, and engineer in charge of fraudulent attempt at the evasion concerned In a The drop in silver prices hua waterworks construction.

of Customs duties Mr. Henderson was questioned dressca undoubtedly affected adversely

three silk at Victoria Station on imports from the United Kingdom by the Ceroner (Mr. E. W. Hamil March 8.

ton). He said that a small dam (particularly textile manufac-

Mr. B. M. Cloutman, V.C., repre- just below Shingmun. Village, sented Miss Tucker, who did not tures) by accentuating still fur-about half a mile past Pineapple personally appear. A plea of guilty ther the disparity between the Pass, had overflowed the 50-ft. was entered on her behalf, price of British as compared gauge by ten feet. This was quite

Mr. R. L. Stephenson (for the with other manufactures, the de- unprecedented. In 1926 the water Excise.

authorltics) came over the dam wall, but only Tucker was a well known actress, said Miss mand being more and more for by about three feet.

and a short time after her arrival cheaper quality goods of Contin- The various rain gauges in the at Victoria four pieces of bagkage

said ental and Japanese manufacture. area,

witness, were read belonging to her were presented by daily. The figures for Sunday, the a baggage porter with a declaration. day of the disaster, showed an un- The declaration was not regarded usually heavy fall of rain.

very satisfactory by Mr. Engine "Dropped Down."

O'Flynn, the Customs officer, and ha Lok Ip, fireman of the train, was rang. Miss Tucker up on the tale- then called. He said that it was phone, told her what had happened, raining heavily when they left, and, after some delay, she came to Shum Chun abeat 4.30 p.m. It con- Victorin herself. tinued to rain until the time of the

Mr. O'Flynn told her he must. accident. Everything looked all ignore the declaration and begin all right ahead on the line as the train over again. approached the scene of the ac- cident.

Misa Tucker said she had bought The train was going At

no dresses abroad, and that, with The about the usual speed. Then the the exception of a few trinkets and engine "dropped down." That was a handbag, everything in her bag- all he could really say about It.

gage had been taken from Britain The Coroner then read the state-'with her.

News in Brief.

The departure of the s.s. Presi- dent Madison is now announced for 8 a.m. on Sunday.

The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 68 degrees. humidity ranged between 93 at 10 a.m. and 92 at 4 p.m.

Sentence of twelve months hardment of the engine driver, who is She was certain labour and 24 strokes of the birch still in hospital. His usual speed, been taken from London with her all gowns had was imposed on Cheung Tim at the he said, was 28 miles an hour, but when she went to Paris a few weeks Kowloon Police Court this morning, or the day in question the rain previously. for matching a rattan and gold was so bad that he drove a little Later, Miss Tucker admitted that bangle from a child at Mangkok slower.

three silk dresses had been bought market.

There did not appear to be any-In Paris, but in the presence of a thing wrong with the track but im-aenior officer she went back on that the engine sank down. mediately the bridge was passed, statement.

to a British manufactured article, for half the price of the British article, the consumer, harassed as he is by the low value of the

The forthcoming marriage is an- dollar, is not going to hesitate nounced of John Robert Foster, of when he makes a purchase. He the Chinese Maritime Customs, now is going to buy the cheaper arti- serving aboard R.L. Leung Tsing, to Simmone Madeleine Helena cle. He would like to buy British Desert. of 14, Wing Lock Buildings, goods, of course, but if British Kowloon.

manufacturers refuse to lower

The Committee

of the Sailors' their prices, it is their own fault, and not his. British and foreign acknowledges the receipt of the and Soldiers' Home gratefully goods entering the Colony enjoy following donation toward the funds equal privileges, since this is of the Home-Royal Naval Recrea- a free port, and the only advan-tion Club per Commander E. G. tage which foreign articles en-

Morris, R.N, H.M.S. Tumar), $50. joy over British is that of price.

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When told she must make a de- Lo Kam-fal, guard on the train, claration, she again admitted that were no people in the first class. She added that she had listened to described its composition. There the dresses were bought in Paris. about ten or so in the, second, and other people instead of doing what about thirty in the first of the was right, and was very sorry for third class coaches. This was the all the trouble she had given. coach where most of the victims

The came from. The other third class gers. coach carried about twenty passen-

Magistrate (to Mr. O'Flynn): What were her actual words regarding the admission?

Mr. O'Flynn: She said, "Well, you have been very nice; they were bought in Paris."

A Violent Jerk. Witness said he knew nothing until the accident happened, when Mr. Cloutman urged that the case he felt arviolent jerk. After the was not a substantial one. Miss smash he sent a message by the Tucker was very ill, having had a

adjourned until next Wednesday afternoon.

CHEMIST'S STORES DRAMA.

Poison Taken Away For "Slimming" Medicine.

If only they would lower theired for 10 years in 1930, was sent to Station. He himself walked to be bothered.

Chun Tat-sang, who was banish-brakesman to Kowloon Railway bad crossing, and did not want to She thought she prices, British goods would enjoy fall for one year with hard labour, ward Taipo and put a detonator or would get the things through rather a monopoly.

at the Kowloon Magistracy this the line. Later, he put three more than go down to the shed. Examples of this regrettable morning. for returning within the on the line, about half a mile from The Magistrate; It was not 'assen- prohibited tirne. He pleaded the wreck. He put detonators on tial for her to do that. She could state of affairs are to be found guilty" and said that his mother both sides of the wreck. That have meds a declaration. I think every day. One tobacco retailer had died and he returned to get was a regulation.

that £40, the aingie value and duty Witness said he also got aut the on the dresses, will be an appro- informed us a short while ago some money.

Red Cross box, and put it into use,priate penalty. that during this year he had

Charged with having caused an

although not a trained man. cleared the whole of his foreign obstruction on the praya at Con- tive evidence, and after hearing The brakesman gave corrahora- stock-stock which in previous naught Road West with 30 picus of the driver of the 4.30 train from years had lain idle in the store-firewood, a Chinese pleaded guilty Kowloon, who said he noticed Buy British Goods?

room and was practically unsell- before Mr. Schofield this morning nothing unusual, the hearing was able. A slump had set in in the that it was a trade obstruction, and Inspector W. R. MacWalter said Although the actual figures sale of British goods and over that the defendant refused to clear are not at the moment available, sixty per cent of his fresh stock the area, when warned by an Indian

About an it would not be an exaggerated

With the dollar Polke Sergeant. was foreign.

Inter, the Sergeant returried to the estimate which gave the amount worth a little over eleven pence, praya to find the defendant sitting expended by the British Market- customers refused to pay $15 for beside the firewood. A 'fine of $9 ing Board on propaganda in the a British-made pípé, for example, was imposed, past year as at least half a mil- when they could procure a simi- lion aterling. The slogan "Buy lar foreign pipe for $7 or $10. British Goods," has been featur- The same complaint against Bri- ed in nearly every newspaper in tlah prices may be heard on ul! the Empire and a large literary sides. Contractors who let out staff is employed in Westminster out tenders for building mater- in composing pamphlets and ials, much as they would prefer articles describing British manu- to chose British, are forced to ac- factured products and urging cept the lower offers made by Far East and Empire firms to American and Continental manu- stock British goods. Yet when [facturers.

LINK WITH BRONZE AGE.

Another Discovery At Jericho.

hour

THE FARCE OF THE SWEEP.

Northern police forces were as- sisted by the broadcasting authorities to warn two women that they had taken away polson instead of medicine from a Brad- ford Chemist's atores.

Mr. station.

The two botles of poison were

The woman who returned them

The two women entered " We heartily congratulate the chemist's stores together and asked few hundred persons who have for two bottles of medicine used drawn prizes in the Irish Grand for "alimming." National Sweepstake, and evon

They left the shop, but within a more heartily-being brothers in few minutes an asaisant noticed affliction-do we commiserate with that the women had carried away all the millions whose expecta- two bottles of poison in mistake, tions have been dashed. London

He pushed out into the crowded has been especially fortunate, per-street, but the women had disap- haps because London staked most peared. desperately, or possibly because

Bradford City Police were in- living in close proximity to a formed, and within half an hour Jerusalem, March 12,

apoll-sport Home Secretary makes police headquarters throughout us particularly defiant Professor Garstang reports aurdity of trying to stop the sale been notified. Hardly an hour had The ab. Lancashire and Yorkshire had the discovery on the site of an of sweep tickets in this country passed before the we turn to the Statesman's Year The contractor and the retailer cient Jericho of a necropolis of could not liave been demonstrated issued to the two women from the warning was Book, we find that the value of cannot be held to blame; the the Middle Bronze Age, ap-more plainly. The joke would Northern Regional broadcasting total imports of foreign manu-fault lies entirely with the manu-graves were found in a good state Clynes succeeded in drawing The women were asked to, com.

proximately 1600 B.C. The have been complete had factures and into Hong Kongfacturer, who either lacks the of preservation, with Important horse himself! The only thing municate with the nearest police rose from £97,526 in 1928 to competitive sense or who cannot pottery remains.

that prevents us from giving full station. £114;016 in the following year, find a way to cut the high costs tien has been discovered on a tion that so much good money has returned intact to the chemist.

A four-line Aramaic inscrip- vent to our hilarity is the reflec and enquiries made up to date of production. A way has been limestone tablet about 1 foot left the country. It is not parti- from statistical experts show found in Germany, France, and square, recording the presence of cularly consoling to know that declined to give her name and ad- that the volume of foreign im-Japan, and, as a result, goods are the bones of Uzziah King of fate has returned a fraction of it. ports is increasing by leaps and placed on the foreign market at Dr. E. L. Sukenik, of the Hebrew mark to the Dublin organisers of Judah. (about 778 to 740 B.C.). though everyone will give full bounds, to the detriment of Bri-prices which cannot fall to be at University, made the discovery the Sweepstake for the exceeding- tish manufacturers. The reason ceptable. Britain, it seems, has among a collection of antiquities ly officient manner in which the

Ten Years Ago. for this is clear. It is not that still to find the way; and, until in the Russian Convent on the draw was run. There was a time,

Mount of Olives.

[From the "China Maii” of British goods are not far super-she does, no amount of pro-

we discovered recently when The style of the writing and of scanning some Sixteenth Century

May 15, 1921.3 ior to German, French, and paganda will Induce consumers the stone-dressing indicate that archives, when Dame Fortune To-day's dollar is worth 2/6%. Japanese goods, or that British to purchase her goods at prices the inscription dates from the was a respecter of persons in dis retailers and consumers Overseas which he simply cannot afford.second century BC. If bursing her favours. A State lot- "Aboard the Admiral Line's new. do not prefer to buy British Imports from Great Britain to fer to the transference, some 80 ed in Queen Elizabeth winning in Hong Kong yesterday afternoon, genuine, the inscription must re- terý organised about 1565 result steamer Wenatchee, which arrived goods whenever they can. It is Hong Kong for the 12 months years after burial, from the fortune of £190,000, "greatly were several members of the com- because, owing to the unfavour-ended. March 81 1981, amounted Royal tombs of the House of adds the historian, "to the dismay mercial commission from the able exchange, people can no to $71,000,000 according to the David within the city to a place of the citizens, We fear that Pacific North West, which fa toyz- longer afford to pay the high local statistical returns. It is difference is indicated in late more than dismayed if Mr. promote friendly commercial re- outside the walls. Such trans modern citizens would have been tog the Far East in order to prices which British manufacficult to reduce this to sterling Hebrew sources. Nothing is Cosgrave had accidentally drawslations between their section of the turers insist on demanding for owing to the variation of the known of the provenance of the the favourite. But Ireland has United States and the Orient. theff, goods. It is in old argu-dollar during the Friod under inscription, but it was acquired not done so badly out of these re The Chairman of the Mission, between 1865 and 1894 by the cent lotteries; and Incidentally Captain James S. Gibson, a pro mei perhaps, but one vital to review. An average of about Archimandrite Antonin. His she has proved that if the English minent Seattle business man, ex- the future of British trade. Ir is. 8d. would be about right, in diaries, in which perhaps its de may not run their own sweep plained to a China Mail reporter Japanese or German manufac which case the imports from quisition is described, were dis- stakes. not all that an anomalous that the object of the visit was to turers are able to produce an arti. Great Britain for the above patched after his death to the law may say can prevent them meet and extend the band of friend-

Holy Synod of the Church of from subscribing to sweepstakes. ship which means so much to both. cie, milar in external respects mentioned period would be ap- Russia

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