1934-05-04 — Page 7

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1934.

CPL. WINTER

INJURED IN

PLANE CRASH

Condition Stated

Not Serious.

PILOT UNHURT AFTER MISSED LANDING ON EAGLE

The airmen who crashed in the R.A.F. Fairey 3F plane when landing on the H.M.S. Eagle yesterday morning were Flying Officer Ivor Clifford Rowe. and Cpl. Albert E. V. Winter. accord- ing to a message from the R.A.F. Base at Kai Tak this morning.

Flying Officer Rowe, the pilot. was unhurt, but Cpl. Winter, the observer, received injuries to his shoulder, and was admitted to the R. N. Hospital yesterday after- 11000. His condition is not ser- ious.

The plane, one of the machines of the 824 Squadron. had flown from the base at Kai Tak and cir eled over the H. M. S. Engle..which was steaming into the wind, and endeavoured to effect a landing. A of wind, however, sharp gust Awept the machine overboard just as she was about to take the deck. Cpl. Water was involved in the crash of a plane near the Chinese border on December 6. last year.

LORD TREDEGAR PASSES.

Served In Army And R.N.V.R.

BOER WAR VETERAN

London. To-day.

Held in French Spy Round-Up

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-day's Short Story.

ROMANOFF

By Ethel Mannin.

was not his real name, of Boston, where he had spent many

I course, but he decided that if happy hours at Miss Ruth Harper

it was

a good enough for the school where she so magnificently Russian Royal Family it was carried on the tradition of the great, good enough for him. In Europe, the beautiful Lavinia, and she had he thought it should be parti-urged him if ever he came to Europe cularly effective, and it was very on no account to miss a visit to important to Romanoff to be Hietzingburg. effective in Europe, because he Modestly he went on to outline his was exiled from Russia and had own international fame as a pianist, no visible means of support. though, he added, when he reflected Unless, that is, one counted his on Lavinia's great Art he felt very two hands. "They had earned him bumble indeed, and that his Own e living of sorts ever since he was work counted for nothing........... Miss fifteen.. He 1728 a marvellous Barton wrote back immediately,; planist. Also he was a marvellous warmly urging him to visit Hiet- list and had the faculty of self-pre-zingburg 'as soon as ever his work servation in the face of adverse cir-would allow, and to remain there as cumstance developed to a truly re-their guest for as long as he wished. markable degree.

But when you She had she lied valiantly for the have survived starvation all over sake of her artistic prestige-of Europe, from Belgrade to Berlin, course often heard of the

great from Paris to Prague, you are apt Romanoff, and she would be very to develop this faculty.

proud indeed to offer him the hos The exploit I am about to relate pitality of her roof. Is only one of his many similarly Two cases of meningitis and one jimpudent and fantastic adventures, case of eqterlc fever were record-but it will show you the sort of man The job of writing. ed in the Colony during the 24 Romanof was.

jup the music festival for a Paris' hours ending Wednesday.

paper-he could write and speak

Madame Salman, recently arrested in Paris as a suspect in the now famous Switz espionage case, pictured with her attorney after she had been interrogated at the Palais de Justice. She was one of the many taken into custody following alleged confession of the two American Buspects.

EUROPEAN CAR DRIVER'S MISHAP

Fails To Report Accident.

COLLIDES WITH TWO CHAIRS

Two summonses were

at the Central Magistracy this morn-j

p.m.

LOCAL NEWS

BREVITIES.

some years

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Two Travellers," by B. V. Shann.

POWELL'S

CHANGE

BUSINESS

ADDRESS.

opened

our

We have now

doors in the new STOCK EX-

CHANGE BUILDING and have

resumed business at 10, Ice House

Street.

We give you a cordial invitation

to inspect our new store and the

new goods displayed.

WM.

POWELL, LTD.

Gentlemen's

TAILORS & OUTFITTERS.

LONG FIRM FRAUD HEARING ENDS

Defendants Committed

For Trial.

COUNCIL VACANCY.

Sir Henry Pollock On Leave.

MR. OWEN HUGHES NOMINATED

A dinner dance will not be held four different languages besides his at the Repulse Bay Hotel on own, French, English, German and served Saturday night but a tea dance will Czecho-Slovakian-took him to Salz-

So when the music festival was against Mr. Leslie Owen Ross, who take place on Sunday afternoon at burg one summer.

While there he cultivated the finished. Romanoff went to Vienna, appeared before Mr. W. M. Thomson 4.30 o'clock.

friendship of some earnest young and thence to Hietzing, where he Americans living in the same cheap took a room for a week in the most The Ladies Club, 1st Battalion the Gasthaus as himself, and from them expensive hotel in the place, though ing, for failing to report an acci-South Wales Borderers, will hold he learned all about a famous dent, and for failing to drive with their fortnightly whist drive and American dancer who had died in he had not the price of a room for until his cheque arrived from Paris due care and esution on April 17 at tombola in Murray Barracks on tragic circumstances

a night there. From this de luxe Garden Saturday, May 12, commencing at 8.

ngo, but whose life-work-the cult The death occurred yesterday of the Junetion of Peak and

hotel he wrote to Miss Barton that of beauty through eurhythmica he was staying there, as he found the Arst Viscount Tredegar, C.B.E. Runde.

was being carried on by an ex-pupil Vienna too noisy for the work he O.B.E., F.S.A., J.P., Deputy Lieu-! It was stated that as Mr. Ross

An inquest into the death of Mra. at a Schloss near Vienna. tenant of Monmouthshire, Knight of turned the corner of Garden Road

|had to do, and that he hoped to find Romanoff made a thorough inves Justice, St. John of Jerusalem, at into Peak Road, his car collided into Hannan Scott, who was killed in s the age of 69.

two sedan chairs, causing $8 dam-motor-cycle accident at the junction tigation of the history and work of time to run over to Hietzingburg

50 WITNESSES HEARD

Mr. John Owen Hughes, director Educated at Eton, Lord Tredegar, age. Mr. Ross stated that he paid of Arsenal Street and Johnston the dancer from the various books one afternoon before he left to re-

turn to Paris. entered the army, and was formerly some money to the coolies at the Road on the night of April 5 last, written about her and her art, and

Mias Barton telephoned him at the

Jose Lizarraga, Wong Sau-mo and of Messrs. Harry Wicking and a Lt. Col. in the Royal Monmouth-time, and thought that that was the will be commenced in the Central towards the end of the Festspiel con- hotel immediately she received the Nicholas Levitsky were committed Company. Ltd., is the only nominee shire Engineers,

Magistracy on May 11, at 2.15 p.m. cocted a letter to the Miss Myrtle letter asking him couldn't he came to stand their trial at the next to serve on the Legislative Council and В Hon-end of the affair.

over that afternoon for tea? He Criminal Sessions by Mr. E. W. As a representative of the Justices The Rev. J. R. Higgs, M.A., who had, he said, just returned from replied that it was impossible, but Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy, of the Peace during the absence of was recently appointed Vicar of St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, follow- ing the resignation of the Rev. Presi- Walton Rogers, was elected dent of the St. Andrew's Club at an extraordinary general meeting held in the Church Hall last night.

Colonel of the 1st Bn. Monmouth- On the first charge Mr. Ross was shire Regiment. He served in the fined $10, and was cautioned on the Boer War, and was awarded the second, with an order to pay $8

Boer War Meda) and clasps.

Lord Tredegar was a retired Cap- Lain of the R.N.V.R., and during the war he commanded K.M. Yacht Liberty, for which he was awarded the O.B.E., the 1914 Star, the Vic- Lory Medal, and the General Service Medal

During 1925 and 1926 he acted as A.D.C. to His Majesty the King.

The Hon. Evan F. Morgan, suc-i cends to the title, and to the 40,000 астев

Monmouthshire.

amends for the chairs.

DOCTOR CAUGHT SPEEDING.

Good Record Considered But Fined $15.

Appearing on # summone

for

estate, situated mostly. in speeding in Chater Road, Dr. S. To Wong, driver of private car, No. 736, was fined $16, by Mr. W.

M.

was expelled from the Colony for 10 years, last January,

Barton at her Viennese school. Ho

TONKIN SALVAGE PROCEEDING.

May Be Refloated This Afternoon.

"

that he would try to find time to resterday on charges of conspiracy the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, KC., come the nex.day,

to defraud persons by pretending who, with Lady Pollock, in leaving genuine to-day aboard the liner Empress of Romanoff by this time had spent they were carrying on a

the Standard Canada on nine months' holiday. nearly all his money and was sub-business known as

He is being proposed by Sir. sisting on one meal a day. The day Products Company, and of 18 other

Henry Pollock and seconded by the he was to go to Hietzingburg he had charges of fraud. [only breakfast, since he was to be

The hearing occupied 18 after-Hon. Sir Shouson Chow.

Over 50 witnesses were call- (given tez, and, he hoped, many more noons.

meals, Chan Yuk, a married woman, was

ed by the prosecution, and 85 exhi- EXCESSIVE USE OF sentenced to 12 months' imprison- Salvage work is still proceeding Miss Barton herself drove over to bits were put in.

MOTOR HORN. At the close of the trial, all de- ment by Mr. W. M. Thomson at the on the stranded 8.8. Tonkin, accord-the hotel to bring him to the Schloss,

fendants reserved their defence, al-¡ Central Magistracy this morning for ing to a message from the Taikoo She was, he thought, one of the most though Mr. M. A. da Silva, repre-

Taxicab Driver Fined She Dockyard Company this morning. extraordinary looking creatures he

senting second defendant, Wong! returning from banishment.

"We expect the vessel to be re-had ever seen outside of Montpar-Saa-mo, outlined his case.

. For driving at excessive speed floated any time now perhaps this nasse. With a green silk tunicj

designed afternoon" the local agents, Messa- dress

The defendants did not disclose and sounding his horn to the an- on supposedly

Ming. a taxicab driver, was fined sunhat and horn-rim spectacles and Dr. Wong pleaded guilty, saying Road, was admitted to the Kwong China Mail this morning.

Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith, Assis-$16 by Mir. W. M. Thomson at the Wah Hospital yesterday, suffering The 8.8. Tonkin ran aground on red leather sandals. Grey hair es- that he was in a hurry, after being from concussion, as the result of Nauchau Island, off Fort Bayard on caped in dank wisps from under her tant Crown Solleitor, conducted the Central Police Court this morning. No Steps By Britain For detained at the Tung Wah Hospital.

prosecution. Lizarraga and Levitsky

Traffic Sergeant McInnis said that Holly- Termination. Mr. Thomson, in imposing the falling from a wall in the backyard April 26, and until Wednesday un-hat, and she looked red and hot.

favourable weather conditions ham-- Romanoff, who considered that the conducted their own defence, and the defendant drove down

. Silva represented wood Road to Pedder Street at pered salvage operations,

only function of a woman was to be Mr. M. A. da

Wong.

rate of 25 m.p.h., sounding his horn beautiful, felt the chill of physical

all the way. repulsion creep over hlm. But he thought of all the good meals com- ing to him and responded with Įcharming graciousness to the worm.

All jeffusivencas of her greeting.

the way out to the Schloss they talked art, music, beauty.

WASHINGTON ARMS TREATY OF 1922.

to ter-

London. To-day, The Lord Privy Sea, Captain Anthony Eden, asked yesterday to The House of Commons if the Gov- ernment intended to give notice before December 31, 1934 minate the Washington limitation of armaments treaty of 1922, said that it was not at present the in- tention of the Government to take; steps with a view to terminating that treaty-British Wireless Ser- více.

TROTSKY WANTS TO ENTER BRITAIN. Application Refused

London, To-day.

Thomson at the Central Magistracy Ching Wai, of No. 549 Canton series Maratimes et Cie, told the Grecian lines she wore an immense the names of the witnesses they will noyance of the public, Yau Chue

this morning.

fine, took into consideration Wong's good driving record.

LORRY DRIVER IN

TROUBLE.-

Fined $15 For Failing To Observe Rules.

of his residence.

Dr.

wan

Lee Shi, 41 years of age, of No. 462, Reclamation Street,

ad- mitted to the Kowloon Hospital, suf- fering from injuries to his legs and face, sustained when he accidently fell from lorry No. 1416 in Taipo Road yesterday.

The C. P. R. liner Empress of Russia arrived at Kobe at 4 p.m. yesterday, and left for Nagasaki at 6 a.m. this morning.

Prosecuting a lorry driver, Chau Wing, for failing to take due care

She is due at Nagasaki at 6 a.m. and caution while driving in Con- to-morrow, and sails again at naught Road Central, Traffic Ser- p.m. for Shanghai, Hong Kong and geant Yaue told Mr. W. M. Thomson Manila.

at the Central Police Court this

morning that the defendant WIR Sentence of 8 days' hard labour driving in front of him and sudden was imposed on Kwan Chung ly shot across the road without givunemployed, by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- jing any warning. He had to apply Fadyen at the Central Police his brakes suddenly to avoid a col-Court this morning, for stealing

The Home Secretary, Sir Johnson. Gilmour, stated yesterday in the The defendant, House of Commons that an ap- plication had recently been made guilty, was fined $15. on behalf of Monsieur Trotsky for permission to enter the United Kingdom, and it had been decid- ed not to accede to hia request.—; British Wireless Service.

SMALL-POX CASES NOT REPORTED

who

a cotton jacket at the Central

pleaded Market yesterday. Accused was also ordered to pay 60 cents, in default 6 days' imprisonment, to the complainant.

4 LB. OF BEACON· COSTS $20.

Man Who Helped Himself.

Young Lung and Wong Chung,

9

EAGLE WITCH LEAVE PORT.

Whitehall Due On Sunday.

1

Barton Inquired,

call.

BAG SNATCHER TO BE BIRCHED.

Youth Fined For Receiving.

LOCAL GOLD BAR EXCHANGES

(Continued from page 1.) A similar statement was made by Mr. D. B. Judah of the China Gold Exchange Company. He in- "Every time you hear a Beetho-

formed the "China Mail" that the ven sonata don't you feel yourself

Shanghai office has been advised, Miks H.M.S. Eagle, accompanied by vibrate on a higher plane?"

Appearing on remand, Wong Hin, and that possibly a statement may H.M.S. Witch, left this morning at

hurtling the

was sentenced to four months' hard be issued in the near future, o'clock for Chusan, where they are shabby, antiquated car along the labour, in addition to six strokes of Neither of the Gold Bar expected to arrive on Monday, dusty roads. Romanoff said that he the birch, by Mr. Q. A. A. MacFad- changes have received any

H.M.S. Whitehall, now.en

routs certainly did. He wanted his tes yen at the Central Police Court this¦munication from the local Govern- from Shanghai, is expected to arrive so badly' that he would have said morning, for snatching a handbagment, and until the Colonial So- on Sunday at 9 am.

from Mra. Sutherland, óf No. 4 Con-cretary's statement was published Hietzingburg, he found, conslated dult Road, on April 26, at the Cen- this morning the Gold Bar Com. of two palaces, a summer palace and tral Market.

panies knew nothing defnite winter palace, standing in acres Wan Ping, 21 years of age and garding the Goverment's attitude. of park full of dear and moss grown unemployed, was fined $80, in de- Action Expected. statues and dried-up fountains fault three weeks' hard labour, for Rumours have been abroad in Ice The school, he learned, functioned

CLAIM FOR $687 REDUCED.

Concrete Products Ltd. Sued By European.

1

anything.

Com

20.

in the summer. palace; the winter receiving $3 from Wong, having House Street for the past few days palace was thrown in with the rent known that the money had been that the Government might adopt

Palaces are at a premium In Aus-

tria, where nobody wants them. Romanoff, who had several times Judgment was given by the Puisas lived in palaces when he had been

Theatre.

and Introduced AN

stolan

Sergeant Guild prosecuted.

(Continued from Page 1)

some such course, said the manager of the South China Gold Bar Com pany, but they were not confirmed until the publication of the noon-day papera,

two coolles, were charged before Judge, Mr. P. Jacks, at the Supreme too poor to live, anywhere else, NO TRADE WAR FORECASTED

The attitude taken by the Govern Court yesterday In the case in Mr. Q. A. A. MacFadyen at the which Mr. J. McPartland of 1 Fuk palace would sult him nicely.

thought that the unused winter

ment towards gold bar transactions Central Police Court this morning Wing Street, claimed 1887.14 from

han not affected the business in gold with fighting in Tung Street, lest the Concrete Products Limited for He was given tea on the terrace,

Įbars, as for the past three days, night. Yeung aws fined $8, while work done and material supplied in Romanof" to the rest of the staff, Japanese lead

"the great The reduction in the imports of owing to the uncertainty of the ex- Wong was fined $2. In default two the construction of the Alhambra three equally unattractive women in agreement reached a few days ago, been put through.

pencils, by the change market, no transactions have $50 Fines Imposed.

A fine of $20, in default two days' imprisonment.

The statement Issued by the Gov weeks hard labour, was imposed on

Mr. A. el Arculli represented the Grecian draperies and sandals. The was cited as an example of the me Wan Rai bf No. 5ị Chung, Ching Ng Kwal, 26 Joars of age and in- Pleading qulity, to the chazze of maizkift. (Tad Mel Ches. Hugardone conversation was sustained on

Wikhoda: beingjusaİ İN AYRININ İrade) senpient, as, sóón 35sday waß has fil of five packets of

very high note, and Romanoff play-War Street, arst floor, and Ho Yau, of employed, by Mr. Q. A. ‚A, MacFad- the theft

flows: No. 18 Chung, Ching Street, first yen at the Central Police Court this cigarettes from No. 247 Holly The original claim was subse-ed up accordingly, and spoke of his Under the agreement, Japan re- The Government, being advised floor, were fined $50 each, in default morning, for the theft of four wood Road yesterday, Tssas quently reduced by the plaintif to soul's vibrations and rhythms, and stricts exports to the United States that the operations of the Gold Bar The tea was to 125,000 gross yearly, which is a Exchanges serve no useful purpose one month's hard labour, by Mr. E pounds of bacon, the property of Shing-wab, a Gwatow man, was $442,74, against which the plaintiff Was & rest succes. W. Hamilton at the Central Magie Pau Chung-shing, at No, 2 Queen sentenced to six weeks hard had paid $255.82 Into Court His disappointingly inadequats, and reduction of 85,000 gross, as come and merely afford facilities for tracy this morning, for failing to Victoria Street, laat érening,

speculations which are seriously pro labour, by Mr. Q. A. A. MacFadyen Lordship found that certain other when he rose to be conducted round nared with last year,

"Negotiations for similar agres- Judicial to the interests of genuine report cases of small-pox, to the Sergeant Shepherd said that ac at the Central Police Court this sums hind to be deducted from the the palace he felt hungrier than Medical Officer of Health, or to the cused helped himself to a piece of morning. Accused had one amiliar palatin's claim and wave incament when he had sat down.

Iments affecting two other Japanese business within the Colony, la cơn...

próducts are now proceeding~]sidaring steps to deal with police, last month.

polica conviction.

the situation.

bacon hanging in the store,

|the, defendants.

for $66.92 against defendant.

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