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Wednesday, June 24, 1931.

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BHDD 火英六世四號· 禮拜三 中戰民国率未车五月初九日

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1931.

LOCAL CINEMAS SUMMONED.

Illegal Storage of Film Spools Alleged.

KEPT IN DRESSING ROOM.

Summonses for the alleged stor

HOME TREASURY

CHANGES.

Retirement of Sir Malcolm Ramsay,

Rugby, Yesterday. The King has approved of the appointment of Mr. Gilbert Upcott, Deputy Controller of the Treasury, to be Controller and Auditor Gen- age of spools of cinematographeral in succession to Sir Malcolm films unauthorised storage rooms, Ramsay, who is retiring next Sep- taken out by Inspector E. Bloor tomber,--British Wireless Service.. against the Queen's Theatre, Cen- tral Theatre, and the Paramount Films of China, Inc., were mention- 'ed before Mr. Schofield in the Cen tral Police Court this morning.

For the prosecution, Mr. P. P, J. Wadehouse., C.LE., D.S.P., in apply. ing for a short adjournmont, intim- ated that one or two points had since cropped up, and would re- quire a little time to deal with them. He would like an opportunity to consult Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, the Public Prosecutor, on the matter.

Mr. H. J. Armstrong represent- ed the Queen's Theatre, who were summoned in respect of approxim- ately 3,000 spools of films alleged to have been stored in the basement of the theatre, the Management not having furnished to the Hon. Inspector General of Police the address of the premises or the nature of the business carried out on June 17 last.

Mr. Wodehouse mentioned that the Central Theatre and the Para- mount Films of China were alterna- tive defendants.

The summons against them is" that on June 1, they kept about 300 spools of films not being used or manipulated in a place other, than an approved fire, resisting store room, namely, a dressing room, on the first floor of the Central Then- tre building.

The Magistrate adjourned the summonses to Thursday. (July 2) at 11.15 a.m.

CORDITE FACTORY

EXPLOSION.

Eleven Persons Blown to Pieces.

NINETEEN INJURED.

CLOUDY.

To-day's weather* report from the Royal Observatory states:-

The depression appears to be central over the Gulf of Pechili.

Pressure is low over China and high to the east of Japap.

Forecast: 5. W. winds;' moderate; generally cloudy.

Rainfall.

Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 a.m. to-day, 1.26 inch." Total since January 1-32.55 inches against an average of ..35.79 inches déficit 8.18

inches.

Temperature,

!

Tho temperature at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock was:--

Hong Korg

78

Macao

77

Pratne Island

81.

Manila

'76

77

78

08

Shangkat

72

Foochow Amoy Chefoo

ROAD COMEDY. Drivers Who Sat Facing Each Other All Day.

London, May 25,

not

DOORS CANNOT · BE

OPENED. !

Stern Reprimand by Local Magistrate.

MAY LEAD TO TRAGEDY.

Under the Factory Act, a sum- mons for having doors. fastened in a manner in which they could not he opened in cases of necessity was brought against the Ming Sing Hardware Company, Canal Road West, in the Central Court this morning, before Mr. Schofield,

Mr. E. Meade, Inspector of Fac tories, said that the doors, in this instance were fastoned inward, but) eveh so they could not open pro-] perly owing to there being a bench fastened to the floor near the door. There were twenty women working on the first floor, and in case of a fire there would be a heavy loss of life. The staircase leading from the first floor to the street was very narrow and was made af wood."

Manslaughter.

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Mr. Schoßeld observed that if there were a fire it would be as bad the recent Staunton Street tragedy. If there were a fire at the premises and people were killed, the defendant would probably be in the dock on a charge of manslaugh-

ter.

His Worship-My advice to you is to get the place altered to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Fac-, torica. Sliding doors would. per- haps be better. I will make the fine $25.

BLASTING MENACE IN

ABERDEEN.

Fragments Blown on to

Sampans.

SLACK PRECAUTIONS,

con-

Acting Sub-Inspector Cunning-. ham, in the Central Police Court this morning, summoned Lam Dore, For seven hours a woman motor- a firm of building contractors, for ist and driver of a pony and trap not having taken necessary precau- ant facing each other on a little-used tions to prevent fragments being and narrow road at Selborne, thrown out at Aberdeen on June 14. Hampshire. There was room A plea of guilty was tendered... for either. to pass. The woman A.S.I. Cunningham said that Lain thought the man ought to give way: Dore were working on a new drain- the pony driver thought the motor age at the Semfnary under ist should. They met at 11.80 a.m.struction on an island facing Apli- On the day in question he and there they sat until 6.30 at chau.

was walking up to the Police Sta night.

at- tion when his attention tracted by sounds of blasting. Hej looked over and saw a large num ber of fragments being blown about and falling on the sampana." It

the time, the; being high tide at sampan people managed to row, away, but had it been low tide they would have had no chance of es- cape.

London, Yesterday. Eleven persons are missing, and almost certainly have been blown to pieces, as the result of a terrific explosion in naval cordite fac- tory at Holton Heath,, near Ware- The parties in the comedy were ham, in Dorset.

Mrs. Gordon Legg, of High Wood, Work was in full swing when Selborne, and Mr. Fred Barnes, who the roof of the nitro-glycerine de-lives near by.. partment was suddenly blown off,,

News of what was occurring at- apparently owing to the bursting tracted a number of highly amused villagers. The pony was given a The sky was filled with acrid cloth covering to protect it from the blood-red smoke. Work was im-rain, and a lunch of bread and taken to Mr. Barnes. mediately stopped; and the factory cheese was hands were recruited as stretcher Not to be outdone, Mrs. Legg sent bearers. Nineteen were injured, for luncheon and her knitting. most of them net seriously.

of a sulphuric acid tank.

The damage to the factory was not so great as might be expected, owing to the use of protective earthworks between the work- sheda. Reuter,

CLEVER RUSE. Opium Concealed in Fireworks.

FINE OF $750.

Eventually the village constable arrived and settled the matter by "backing" the car into the main road.-Singapore Free Press.

the defendant was arrested In .The Hollywood Road yesterday, oplum was concealed in a bundle of firecrackers. One would have thought that it was "just an ordinary packet of Areworks.” De fendant knew that he was carrying oplum, because when he was goes tioned by a Revenue officer he Another clever method of con-atated the correct amount cealment of illicit oplum was ex-Defendant, in reply to the Magis- posed before. Mr. W. Schofield in trate, said that he was formerly em the Central Police Court this mornployed on board the Kinshan, He ing, when a Chinese appeared be had been promised, some money to fore him. charged with being in carry the opium to a teashop possession of 28 taels of the drag A fine of $750 or five months

Revenue Officer Ward: bald that hard labour in default; was imposedz.

Preventy and cire

Was

His Worship imposed a fine $50. CRUELTY TO PIGS.

"Must Have Been in Agony."

CHINESE FINED.

"They were going away to be slaughtered, It is true, but they must have been in agony," said In- spector Stimson in the Central Police Court this morning, when he charged Wong Cheong (29) before Mr. Schofield, with cruelty to pigs in Main Street.

Inspector Stimson said that it was rather a bad case of cruelty. The plge, which were confined in crates that had no matting, were Bleading about the feet. One pig had all its legs badly cut.

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