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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1934.

“LISTENING-IN” TO

GERMANY

Jimmy's Proprietor

Disappointed.

$250 WIRELESS SÈT

Deception Established By Court

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"claim against Mr. W. G. Hacfke, the proprietor of Jimmy's Kitchen, Wanchai, for. $200, being the outstanding balance on the price of a wireless set purchased from Messrs. Brandt and Com pany, 6 Des Voeux Road Central, was disallowed by the Puisne Judge, Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Supreme Court this morning, judgment with costs being award. ed to the defendant.

Mr A. el Arcali appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. T. P. K. Kemble was counsel for the defen- dant

Mr. Kemlite said that his client purchased a wireless set from the plaintiffs on December 19 last for *$250, paying a deposit of $50. It was claimed that the apparatus; was capable of receiving Euro- pean stations, whereas actually stj could not, difficulty belug experi enced in obtaining even local ception. The dealers, added coun-

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sel, made various excuses, and, al SOVIET

though adjustgients were made tr the set, it refused to satisfy. The defendant demanded that the sel be returned, but plaintiffs refused.

FREIGHTER.

OFF PRATAS, Continues Journey To Vladivostock.

THE

CHI

A.S.P. FORCED INTO SIDE CHANNEL,

Chinese Driver Fined $25.

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THE ALBATROSS

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By Hector

Bolitho

MET Captain Angermann for might stretch out his iror arms the first time in Bremen-and crumple the walls in his hands. shaven before, the war. He lived But, this sense of size left him, when in a jolly little blue and white he sat on either side of a table to house, away from the docks and talk. His movements were quick, crowded buildings of the port his eyes were sparkling, and hì The front path led up to the hands moved incessantly, lean and door, under four arches of huge strong and brown, among the bleached whalebones: From the papers which lay between us. front arch he had suspended a "Albatrosses," he said. And then) Ismall #rebelt, with the name of he repeated it twice, giving the the house, Sans Souci painted on two s'a little hiss as he said them. it, in his own meticulous letters."Albatrosses."

Captain Angermann was good- His wife appeared with fug of looking in a hard, Prussian sort of beer. She was a Bavarian, Is supe way. He was dark and strong, and pose, fair, with a soft voice and be walked arrogantly, He was calm eyes. She seemed to be something of a scholer, too, for he frightened and self-conscious, will- had edlfed a book on sea birds. ing to smile, but eager to be back He was more proud of this than of again among her kitchen things.}. ↑ having taken a full-rigged ship

We leaned across the table again, Around the Horn before he was lifting the mugs of beer, letting the thirty.

Alida shut down with a tap after each

I had been asked by a publisher draught. It was much more. fun in Munich to write a treatise on drinking thus than from our own albatrosses. It may sound, dull, dull, English tumblers. written down like that. But no 'man could think albatrosses dull,

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once he had seen them; white, big, land, sharp-winged, wheeling above. the blue silk water of the Pacific, their mighty wings stretched four- teen feet across the sky. I used to see them off the New Zealand coast, Not Correct Description.

'myself stretched on the sun-baked: The defence, said Mr. Kemble. was that the wireless set in question

For driving lorry 4148 in a dan deck, lazy, hot, stripped to the gerous manner near the Universi, waist, watching their big wings did not answer the description given.]

The defendant, in evidence, salt

HENRY KESWICK RETURNS ty Recreation ground. Wong Ping which never seemed to tire, their

shan was fined $25 by Mr. E. W. rhythmic whirling, their sudden "But there are many sea birds,” that the set was sold to him by

to the tide when a ho said......"Why. is it that you are) Mr.Wandres, as assistant of The Soviet freighter. Kuznetales-Hamilton at the Central Magis swoop down

steward threw potato peelings over interested mostly in albatrosses?” Messrs. Brandt int Company, I, nou, accompanied by her sister ships, tracy this morning.

Assistant Police Superintendent the side of the ship:

"It is mostly because I have al was described as an "all-wave set", Kamir and Dniper, left Pratas

to Grant, in evidence, stated that' It was no pain of trial to me ways, thought them interesting and and capable of receiving European Shoals yesterday on their way

the when the little, eager publisher in strong and beautiful,” I answered. atations. After the sel was in Vladivostock, after having been when driving his car near

Recreation Ground, Munich said he'd like me to write "They have so much more character stalled at his home at 42 Lockhart aground- since March 11. She was University

Pokfulum, defendant pulled across the treatise for him. It was than-than eagles, or any, other Road. Wanchai, no results could be refloated last Thursday. obtained. and, despite adjustments. The Hong Kong Whampoa Dock to the right-hand side of the road through him that I went to Bremer birds, for that matter-it is difficult

tug. Henry Keswick, which render and pushed him into the alde haven, out of the crowded streets of to explain-but no improvement was made.

I always think. Mr. Arculli put it to the wit- ed valuable asalatance in towing the channel, giving no signal of his the port, up under the whalebone there is something - half. human ness that he had asked for a long vessel off the reef returned to Hong Intention. Defendant had a foki arches, to the little white and blue about them."

Kong this morning.

standing on the running board of house, with the letter of Introduc The vessel is owned by the Chin- the lorry which would have obtion to Ernst Angermann. Witness-No, that is a lic 1-1 asked for an "all-wave" set an that, ese Eastern Commercial Railway scured any signals he might have

Agency, and was travelling from given. I could get Germany."

He explained that he had ex-Leningrad to Vladivostock.

wave sel.

I wanted to get Ger-

A Switch Knob,

several quantity of

FOUR SPEEDING

CASES.

$15 For 32 M.P.H. In Whitfield.

LOCAL ESTATES. European Leaves

$115,300.

Captain Angermann' smiled, his slow lipa moving arid showing his He came to the door himself white;, poirited teeth. "That is when I knockede He edemed to be true; there is something half. In fuing Wong, Mr. Hamilton too big for the little house, as if he human about them. But it is not pected to obtain New York and A vessel of some 6,000 ions, she warned him that his Heence would

for this that you came. Your Jot Manila stock quotations from the was laden, amongst other things, be stopped if he gave any further

ter says that you wish to know of sel, and German stations for 'his which were zealously guarded, with trouble,

their nests at Tristan da Cunba.**

Ernst Angermann had been at: amusement, but he could obtain parts of a river gunboat,

launches, and a neither.

Tristan. He opened a portfolio full Mr. Areulli-Were you not told machinery.

of minute and patiently made draw-] that you could get European sta- Three attempts to refloat the ver

[ings on pale-blue paper. With his tion by transmission ?""Yes, but sol were made soon after grounding

quick, sharp hands turning over the the only station that could be re- and, some considerable anxiety was

Probate for Jöcnl estate, leaves, he told me what I had set ceived by transmission was the felt for her safety with the rise of

Jamounting to $115,500 of the late out to know. He had seen

thai relay from Daventry by the legal strong winds and bad weather

Henry Evelyn Edward Howard strange albatross courtship dances, 1 Kuznetzleissou „Puts Back. -

Gandeman, station.

· of

Chessington, he had seen their lonely white eggs, It is now learned that the Soviet many."

Southsea, who died on October 3, lying upon the open ground. He freighter. Kuznetzlessou, and her Four drivers, received fines for 1933, has been granted to Mr: had measured them and watched Lotabar Hammon, the Second two escorts, the Kamir and Dniper, exceeding the speed limit in a D. J. Lewis, Solicitor. “

them, and each little fact that fell Officer and wireless operator of were obliged to put back. to Pratas (controlled area in Whitfield when The probate for local estate of so gibly from his ipe, was illus- the 8.5. Michael Jebaon, said that owing to bad weather. The vessels charged before Mr. E W. Hamil the late. Cecil Philip Ross, for-trated by one of the hundreds of he examined the radio net, and was left Pratas yesterday morning.

ton at the Central Magistracymerly of 518, the Peak, who died little sketches. There was one of a this morning?

on December 17, 1982, leaving a bird, is wings fourteen feet spread, lorry local estate, valued at $24,600, so heavy with food that it lay, Kam-has been granted to Mr. E. H-gorged and inert, upon the racks.

Terner, Solicitor. a short wave one. He said that Among the passengers on hoard

had never seen such drawings, with Letters of administration for Ince-like details of rocks and wings, set at Mr. Haefke's home,, had rived in Hong Kong yesterday, mons of driving Public car No. the local estate of the late Fred-end, about the edge of each page. nointed out that the two knobs was Mr. A. L. Shields, principal of 719 at 26 mph. Shiu Sau-sanjerick William Winyard, Railway minute sketches of beaks and wings.

Inspector, who died on February and claws. were for near and distant stations. Messrs. Shewan Tomes and Co and was fined $10.

Witness suid that he would state] non-official Justice of the Peace. For driving lorry 2770-at 2712, 1984, have been granted to My pencil moved,,rapidly as he m.p.h. Au Yeung-hi was find his widow, Mary Winyard, of 43. spoke and, at the end, he chose one

Hillwood Road, Kowloon. $11.

The drawing of an albatross'in, fight the gramophone pick-up,

The Puisne Judge then remarked Taui Cheung, driver of public estate is valued at $4,800.

and lifted it up from the portfolio. Cross-examined by Mr. Arculli, that he did not think the case should Car No. 220, was fined $15 for

He had coloured it with chinese witness said that he was familiar go on" any further.

driving his car at 32 m.ph. The plaintiff

ST. JOHN BRIGADE with radio sets and had built one of had deliberately told the defendant}

ACTIVITIES. that he could get Germany only

of the opinion that it was im- possible to get German stations,

•

as it was a long wave set and not

Personal Pars.

Mr. Wandres, when adjusting the the s.. President Taft, which ar-

that one of the knobs was only toj t switch the set from the radio

Lu know?"-"No, I have never tried.""

Summoned for driving No, 1806 at 22 m.p.h. Lau hang was fined $10.

Pleading guilty to a

rum-

white, so that, drawn upon the blue paper, it looked as if it flew against the sky.

"And this drawing you must

Mr. Arculli-Would it not have through, local transmission knowing SILVER RISES IN 11,607 New Territory accept from me," he said what I

NEW YORK

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Cases In March.

dort of human sensibility; anybody treated who has seen them dy must have Medical seen it too, don't you think?"

his own.

been stupid of Mr. Wandrea to have very well that there has never been claimed that the set was capable of any German station transmitted to

"There you have found receiving German stations if, in Hong Kong. He considered that It

always see,” I told him. You have fact, it was not?"

was an obvious case of deceit.

'made' the bird seem mournful and Witness "I suppose it was said: Mr. Arculli sald that he would

The vaccination return of the remote-do you know what I mean? more or less for business reasons." argue that, in point of law, that ad-

St. John Ambulance Brigade, to-no other birds have as much ex- Further questioned, witness sald mission was not fatal. He said that and 48.11 respectively, while bonds March 30, shows a total of pression. It in absurd to think that Mr. Wandres described the set the sale of the radio was made an advanced .05 to 02.67. Ulities de 161,580, Since the leat return that there could be much expression as a long and short wave combina- a written contract, which did not clined 06 to 25.96. The commodity was issued, 5,880, infants, 4,142 on the face of a bird. But here you Elon set with a gramophone pick-up, state whether it was a long or short index closed at 53.81.....

of whom were under five years, have t is half in their eyes. A Witness added that with such a set wave combination. He claimed that; Business was average, 1,870,000 have been vaccinated.

The number of cases It was only possible to obtain Ger- his client had sold what he had un-shares being träded." man stations through Hong Kong, dertaken to sell by the contract... In their market report, Mesars. E by the New Territory

Mr. Wandrea's Evidence. The set sold to the defendant was A. Pierce and Company, through Benevolent Branch during "You are right,” he said. "But||| Mf. Wandrow, in evidence, said a long wave act, and that was in their local correspondents, Moara March, was 11.607 7.761 being do you know the legend about the old cases, 8,746 new cases and albatross? Do you know that we -- that the defendant was told that the agreement with the contract. | Apla" Landa, Ltd." state;;

sat was only a long ways set, but

We think, the market continues 100 maternity cases,

people of the sea bellava that they bought it, saying that be only want; He suggested that the defendant, to give a satisfactory account of It

bear, the copla of daad/mariners in nd to get Manila. He said that be after having bought the wet, dis-self though the volume Ald" not,

their white breasts Tequila, da had told the defendant that he could covered that he could obtain a long patly increase. We believe that a only obtain, German stations if they wave set for much less. This few days of continued Armnoni wère, "transmitted by the local fact was borne out in a letter from would have material effect on the station, and denied that he had the defendant to the plaintif in general sentiment............. ["claimed that it?WAK an "all-wave which the lalter agreed to keep the W

|set if the plaintiffs would accept $50 erraticali ithing wrang *\* Witness hera: interrupted with, for the set.

Obvious Case of Deceit.

Judgment Passed.

Mr. Justice, Lindsell said that he

|was natisfied on the evidence

| Mr, „Kemble" then cross-examined the set sold was purported to witness, and nekad if, in fact, the long and short wava" nombina set {y/as", capable of obtaining: Gars whereas it was admitted,

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