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adventure with a beautiful cari. val girl who loved him but left him.

JANET

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STATE FAIR

KENRY KING PRODUCTION

FOX

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Mail

EIGHTY NINTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION.

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1933,

Gloucester Building Band Slander Case

(Continued from Page 1.) Silva sought to prove that the letter pet he is playing is the cause of the dictated to Mrs. Drake, on January whole thing. It kills the band and 31, and typed by her; constituted a the orchestra is driving my crowd libel in that she had read the letter away in lieu of attracting them. I have received more complaints about after typing it. that trumpet than anything in the whole building."

"Incompetent.”

The statement also alleges that the words were published in the Gloucester Building and spoken in

His Lordship disagreed and ruled that there was no libel even though the typist had read the letter after it had been typed.

LONELY LIGHTHOUSE TRAGEDY.

Ice-Breaker Rushed

Assistance.

To

KEEPER'S SON DROWNED.

Sydney (Nova Scotia). The climax of a dramatic story was reached when the Candian ice-breaker "Montcalm" sent out a wireless message stating that she had arrived off the lonely Mr. Silva asked His Lordship Flint Island lighthouse and taken whether if the letter had been read off the lighthouse-keeper and the hearing of a person named by the typist, after it had been sign the body of his drowned son for William Lawson Butts, and thated by defendant, that would con burial on the mainland. defendant meant by the above stitute a libel. words that plaintiff was an incom Mr. MacKinley protested that! For five days the folk on the petent musician and not fit to be he

been refused parti-isolated lighthouse had been try- employed as a musical director or culars а this point,

anding to communicate with watch- that'ers on the mainland, but the as a trumpet player and that by had acquiesced thinking reason of such incompetence the they were not relevant, but in pack ice prevented any assis Gloucester Building was losing cus-view of the point raised by Mr.tance by goat. Then an aero- Silva, he wished for time in which plane dropped a message ask- ling that two red. flashes should to prepare his defence.. In consequence of the allegedle desired His Lordship to state be signalled in the case of death words plaintiff had been greatly exactly what he had to contend or need for urgent assistance. "The two red flashes came, Injured in his credit and reputa- against.

toin.

$1,000 Claimed.

had

tion and in his business, and "I take it that there are now two. Immediately the "Montcalm,” claimed $1,000 damages and costs. slanders and one libel," he said.

The case was adjourned until this afternoon.

Plaintiff claims that in con-: sequence of the words mentioned he has been greatly injured in his credit and reputation and In his business.

Mr. W. A. MacKinley, of Messrs.

STEAM PIPE BURST AT A.P.C.

lunder special Government order

from rushed to the rescue Sydney and after breaking through a mile of ice, found the keeper of the lighthouse with the body of his son. The father Tam Sing and Lee Cheuk, two had rescued one son from the Deacons, represented the defendant, male employees of the Asiatic Pe- floating ice but was unable to and Mr. M. A. Silva, of Messrs. troleum Company's Installation at save the other. D'Almada Remedios & Silva. ap- North Point, were yesterday after- During the funeral service on peared for the plaintiff.

noon severely injured when a steam the mainland the eldest son the The proceedings this morning in pipe burst, causing both men's legs keeper's wife will keep the light| volved a point in law. Mr. M. A.jto be badly fractured.

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