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Submarine Disaster.

(Continued from Pape 1.)

and two died later in hospital. The accident was considered to be an unprecedented one in Navat annals, a remarkable feature being the slight damage done to the ship itself.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1931.

EYE POSER FOR A

JUDGE.

Biological Theory in Will Dispute. QUESTION OF COLOUR.

Judge Michael Feinberg, of the

FROM PEDLAR TO PRINCE.

Death of Arab 80 Years

1.

in Colombo...

WEALTH IN MILLIONS,

age of 105 years.

Accidents, to submarines have!

Few careers have been so fortunately been few and far be tween, the Jast one recorded being Circuit Court in Chiengo has been romantic and remarkable as that during the typhoon of 1923, when a asked to set a precedent by mak- of Hadji Ibrahim bin Ahamed of submersible of the "L" class was ing a legal application of the bio-Colombo, who has just died at the sunk without casualty.

Beginning in She was logical theory that two.blue-eyed Ceylon nearly 80 years ago with later raised..

Chinese-Owned Steamer. parents cannot have à brown-eyed very little to call his own his wealth at the end was computed in The Chinese steamer Yuta, a child.

millions. steel screw vessel of 1,753 tons! The matter came to the, fore and 1,128 het, was formerly the when George Adair Longley took At the age of 25 he landed in Colombo from Zabeid. his home in Into-China Steamship Co.'s Yuen legal steps, to obtain a share of Arabia, and made his way as a Sang. She is now registered in the £200,000. estaté of Albert W Newchwang, the owner or own-Longley, hat manufacturer. He Pedlar, going from town to town ers, according to Lloyd's Regis-claimed that he was the son of far as Galle and Kandy and the Chinese flag. Built in 1889, of wedlock but legitimatised and industrious habits enabled him ter, being Pao Yu Tani. She flies the American millionaire, born out even further on foot as he was too poor to travel by coach. Thrifty by Messrs. Hall, Russell and Co.,[marriage of the parents later.'

in ten years to improve his posi of Aberdeen,, she is 250.2 feet Counsel for Mrs. Caroline long, 36.2 feet broad, and 16.1 in Longley, third wife of Albert W. 'sale of sweetmeats and silks at the tion by setting up a shop for the depth.

Longley, produced an 'expert wit junction of Kuruwe and New Moor Unlucky Flotilla,

neas, Dr. Sanford Gifford, who a Streets. Ill-luck seems to have dogged serted that a blue-eyed father and a success that its qwner in course This business was such the four submarines of the "P" blue-eyed mother could have (or time bought up the premises class (Poseidon, Perseus. Pan-only blue-eyed children. dora and Proteus), the Fourth Submarino. Flotilla, ever since

Legitimacy Doubts.

and in after years became the owner of practically all the houses at this. busy junction.

J

The Tay Trade. The year 1870 was an important one for Hidji Ibrahim bin

their departure from Britain for The claim was advanced by the widow's counsel that the million- the China Station.

It will be recalled that the Pan-aire and former wife, whom

2 dora and Proteus were involved George Longley claims, as hisi in a collision off Gibraltar, 80 parents, were blue-eyed, whereas Ahamed for it was in that year that he, pioneered the toy trade in miles west of the Straits, on the George has brown eyes.

night of December 16 last. They "Parents from all over the coun- Ceylon business that brought were both damaged, and were try are writing to me," says the him great riches and a reputation taken in hand at Gibraltár for judge. Many of them, say that, in commercial circles. He was the repairs, spare parts having to be this scientife law. simply cannot first to import toys on a commer sent out from Britain.

be true. Others are depressed be-cial scale from the famous German The Perseus and Poseidon ar-cause the law costs doubt on the manufacturers who specialised in rived in Gibraltar on December legitimacy of their children. The them and even big firms in the 30, and continued their cruise in setting of a precedent in this case him. About this time too he be Fort bought their supplies from the comrades of the unfortunate dependently, All four submar-one that would apply in divorco men who have lost their lives at ines went up to Wel-hai-wei a cases and in those settling the gan to import reel-cotton and laca the post of duty. At the time of few weeks ago. They form Bri-fatherhood of infants, where that in large quantities and up to the writing it is known that the tain's latest submarine flotilla, le disputed, would be fraught with present day the Hameedia Stores as he called his place of business; and are the latest types of under-heavy responsibility. wreck has been located, and the sea vessels.

"Any legal ruling to the effect is noted for its reel cotton. Four Times to Mecca. that blue eyes cannot beget brown greatest anxiety will prevail on

Bin Ahamed married late in life eyes, a principle supposedly based on the Mendelian law of heredity. a daughter of Haj Sayed. Abbas would become a determining fac-bin Sayed Salib, and, the wedding tor in many divorce suits where was attended by all the seven misconduct is charged.

Egyptian Pashas then in exile in The re-

in Ceylon he visited his home in Arabia four times, and on all four men we feel that we are re-echo

"Dr. Davenport, of the Carnegie occasions took the opportunity to ing the feelings of the entire

Institution of Washington, a lead-visit Mecca, once in the company Colony in expressing our deepest "It must be realised that there ing authority on the application of H.E. Ibrahim Pasha Refinath of 3,500 fewer clergy in the of Mendelian law, has testified Egypt. He returned from the last sympathy on the occasion of this are

Church of England to-day than that there is no exception to the of these trips vory 1 and his life very lamentable disaster. Their there were in 1914, and that the rule, and that reported exceptiona was despaired of, but he recover- loss is a very terrible one. Those towns are falling

are always found to be withouted and maintained good health up who have been taken from them paganism," said the Venerable John foundation or due to failure to till a week before his death. Pre- are no less heroes than those who Carpenter Turner, Archdeacon of discern the determining eyelvinus to that he once had severe

all sides as to the fate of those "TOWNS FALLING INTO still shut up in the submarine.

To the Royal Navy and to the Commander-in-Chief of the China

Station, his brother-officers, and

Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 10, 1931. gotten. Rest in Peace!

Toll for the Brave.

•

93.

News in Brief.

PAGANISM.*

Archdeacon and Clergy Shortage.

back

into

sult might be a flood of divorees. Ceylon. In all his 80 years

Basingstoke, during a Commission colour.

was

out

Invariable Rule.

when he

U.S. CITIZENS.

died in Naval action in the War of Inquiry into the desirability of "The layman cannot always be ever, was permanently cured.

pulmonary trouble, which, how- They have given their lives for uniting the benefices of East World-able to tell a blue eye

Large Possessions." King and Empire and in support ham and Hartley Mauditt with Bees one-there may be brown During the last 25 or 80 years pigment that he does not recog the late Hadji Ibrahim became the of the principle of an adequate West Worldham,

Evidence was given that the nise in the eyes of the apparently owner of considerable landed pro- Navy to safeguard British inter three parishes contained only 400 blue-eyed."

perty. He owned land and build- ests in the Far East. They have people, and that the aggregate at- There exists in the Loggley willings at Kayman's Gate and Fourth gone, but they shall not be for-tendances at early Communion and case some uncertainty about the Cross Street as well as several Ana evensong were in East Worldham eye pigment of Albort W. Longley residential bungalows in Colombo, and West Worldham churches only and of the wife, Alice, who are one of his recent acquisitions be- nine and seventy-five respectively. claimed as the parents of George, ing "The Lawn." He also owned The parish representatives pro-There is no documentary evi- Miriswatte Estate in Negombo, tested against unión. Archdeacondence, and there are only non-Arupola Estate, Kandy, and The lowest open air temperature Turner observed that only a mile scientific witnesses to say whether Kotagala Estate, Avisawella, of

At 10 separated the churches. "The or not they were actually blue-the Not since the disastrous cx- yesterday was 78 degrees.

last-named of which his eyed.

brother-in-law, Mr. S. M. B. S. plosion on H.M.S. Sepoy on April am, and 4 p.m. the humidity was Church of England," he said, "will have to adopt the method of County

Abbas has been in charge, ever 8 last year, when four men were

Education Committees with their

since the late Mr. Ibrahim bought killed outright and two died Suffering from 'severe burns, the school children, and collect people.

it. He had four sons

and one daughter, who is married to Mr. later, has such a deep gloom been nature of which is at present un- as there are not enough clergymen

A. R. A. Razik, na well AS 18, cast over the China Station-as known, a youth, Chan Kan (17) was to go round."

that being told removed to the Kwong Wah Has. On

there ARE THEY NORTH AMERICANS grandchildren and onc great- that caused by the news of the pital at 8 o'clock last night..

no public-house at West

OR UNITED STATESERS? grandchild. He gave largely to Worldham, and that people terrible calamity to the new Bri

Mohammedan charities and re- either to Selborne or tish submarine Poseidon, ten Mariners are informed that a walked

gularly at Ramazan sent large Bogota, Col., May: 8. sums of money to his nephew, miles to the north of Wel-hai-busy marking a rope off Shekha in East Worldham (a mile away)

their beer, the Sumchun River has either drift-for

the Archdea- Is a citizen of the United States Sheik Mamoud Sheikul Ulema of wei. Prompt as the Admiralty ed away or been stolen by some par-con said, with some spirit. "There of America an American, a Yan-Zabeld, for distribution among his has been in releasing the inform-son.

on you are: Teople will walk a mile for kee, a North American, a United relatives at home. The buoy was last seen

beer, but not for worship. Surely, Stateser, a Saxton American, or a The business centre of Avise- ation at Home, His Majesty the June 5 at 5.30 p.m.

if people are godly, they won't

"gringo"?

wella, where he owned much pro King and his gracious Consort The Governor în Courel has mind walking a mile to worship." It's a delicate question through-perty too,, was in mourning for have been no less belated in approved of the suspension of the

South America depending the death of Ibrahim and the fing sending a message of condolence Regulations made under the Dogs MYSTERY OF 11 BROKEN RIBS. largely on how friendly the gen- of the Zabir sect to which he be to the dependants of the Eur muzzling of dogs was enforced and Ordinance, 1927, by which the

eral attitude of any particular longed was flown at half mast. nation is toward the United States. Special prayers' were, also said 'In vivors. This considerateness for their movements restricted..

For after all. Colombiana Ar- the Sitawake Mosque, “ his-subjects will be thoroughly.

gentinians and Chileans are in- Such is the romantic story of appreciated not. alone by the A lecture, open to the public, will

habitants of America and are just this paladin of poverty who be be given at the Chinese Y.M.C.A., David Fyfe, aged 75, of South as much entitled to be called came a veritable merchant prince, Royal Navy but by the entire Bridges Street, on Thursday at 7 Street, Forfar, was found kneeling "Americans" as are inhabitants of says the Ceylon Daily News, Empire.

p.m., by Mr. J. C. FitzHenry, in prayer in Emmett Street, Pop-the United States. The actual circumstances lead-| A:M.IFE, the subject being, "Fire lar.

In Colombia, which is perhaps Two women, Au Slu-chan (15) ing up to the submarine being Prevention and Means of Combating He was taken to a mental home, as friendly to the United Stetas and Aui Hoi-chan (11), were in-

Fires."

where he died, with eleven ribs as any South American nation, jured when a portion of the roof of broken.

any of the foregoing appellations No. 66 Peel Street collapsed at 2.30 Yuta have not yet been disclosed. At the fortnightly meeting of the At the inquest at Poplar Police- is likely to be heard with perfect- o'clock this morning. Both victims· The efforts of those immediately Sanitary Board yesterday the Constable Thomas Redfern said that ly friendly intentions. Any, that were rescued by the Police and re- Chairman (Mr. G. R. Sayer) said when he found Fyfe in Eammelt is, except "gringo," which is in moved to the Government. Civil concerned at the scene of the dis- he noted that members were in Street the man had his shoes and the nature of a dirty crack and is Hospital Their condition, is not aater have naturally been con- agreement with the application for socks off. In his hand was a pray- rarely encountered in Colombia. serious centrated on the work of rescue the registration of 8, Morrison Hiller-book. When asked what he was The word "Yanqui," which odd- and of locating the wreck with a Road, ground floor, as a dairy, doing, he said: "I am fighting for ly enough in pronounced "Yankee," is used more or less humorously view to ascertaining the probabi-

The forthcoming weddings are He was removed to Waterlow and includes United States real- lity of effecting any more announced of Ernest Michelfolder, House, Bethmal Green.

dents living south of the Mason rescues of those ratings still missionary, of the Basel Mission, George Ling, an attendant at and Dixon line,, ** ** trapped in a

Talpo Road, to Johanna Elsinger, Waterlow House, said Fyfe was Dr. B. Sanín Cano, the leading compartment,

To-day's dollar is worth 2/0%. It is

of the same address, and of Rochus very violent when admitted. He essayist of Colombia, originated unofficially surmis Jacintus Morales, of 86. Sau Wa shouted Biblical phrases and had to the term "saxo-americanos to There will shortly take place a ed, however, that the ill-fated Fong, to Fercillin Maria Gomez, of be restrained in a strait jacket. He apply to United States citizens, small but novel event in the local submarine was returning from 19, Kwong Ming Street, hle Injuries...

did not know how the man came. by and differentiates Latin Americans, shipping world-the first reinforced who do not particularly like that concrete ship ever bailt here will be British postal orders to the value Dr. R. M. Bronte said death was terminology, with the appellation launched from the yard of Moasts. by the ss. Yuta possibly in a fog. of nearly 25 were found on the due to fractured ribs. Indo-americanos," which means Brossard, Mopin in Hunghom.

In this Colony, where the off-ground outside No. 25, Kowloon Asked by, the coroner (Dr. R.. L. "Indian Americans." But they do This craft has been designed by cers and men of the Foseidon had Godown, by a coolle samed Mai Sat Guthrie) If it was possible that the net like that either Messrs. Brossard Mopin to make alre made numerous friends

at about 1.80 m, yesterday. The force necessary to restrain Fyfe la As for there being estadouni- trips between Hong Kong and Can- Postal orders which were in a straitjacket could have broken doses" or. United Statesers, there ton with building materials, Hee their very brief stay plain envelope, comprised two of his ribs, Dr. Bronte cald that might are also the United States of size is 70 over all, beam 17, draught their arrival from Home 20 each, two of Is. 6d. each, one be so, owing to the old man's bones Brazil, which covers more terri-5 with a load of 80 tons. She has

the utmost sympathy each of 106. 6d. and 58. The find being very brittim

tory than the United States of a 450, hp motor and will gata will go out to the dependants and Station

was handed in at the Water Police The jury returned an openver America, and the United States of practical speed of 5 to 6 miles fully

Paket?

Mexico, which is no small country, loaded.

rammed by the Chinese steamer

exercises when she was rammed

waters

Man Who Was" Put. In...... Strait-Jacket.

the cause."

Ten Years Ago.

- Irom the “Chino Mail".

June 10, 1921.)