1935-12-24 — Page 9

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DRUNKEN SOLDIERS CHARGED

ICE HOUSE STREET FRACAS

ALL PLEAD CUILTY

Fusiliers William Ernest Davis, Donovan Coombes, Edward Dickin- son and Walter Edward Davis, all of "C" Company, Royal Weich Fusiliers, appeared before Mr. Q.ị A. A. Macfadyen at the Central Police Court, as a sequel to thei fracas in Ice House Street on Sun-l „day night.

Davis and Coombes were chang- ed with maliciously breaking the plate glass window of Messrsi William Powell's tailoring tablishment, Ice House Street..

All the accused were: charyed i with assaulting F. C. B492 Parknar Singa, P. C. B5-Dial Singh and W. Tansley. a Police Re- servist

The accused were further charged with damaging Mr. Tass-! ley's clothing and spectacles to! the "otal value of $33.

The accused pleaded guilty to all the charges.

Detective

Sub-Inspector

THE CHINA WAIL TUESDAY DECEMBER 21, 1935

The New York police say that the refusal of Dr. Fritz Gebhardt (right). German economist «nd industrialist, to divorce his wife and marry her, was the motive for his slaying by Miss Vera Stretz (left), New York University graduate, in a luxurious aperta "at hotel, the entrance of which is shown above. Below are Min Strett's purse, which contained the still warm revolver and the

blood-stained nightgown shown.

FLOOD MENACES LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

O'Donovan appeared for the pro IN YUGOSLAVIA

while

Captain 11.

secution Gwydyr-Jones, of the Royal Welch'

Fusiliers. was also present in Wardar River Again

Court.

Evidence was given by Car Gwydyr-Jones, who saw the affair that the men were too drunk to know what they were doing.

Rising

EARLY FLYING MACHINE

Contraption Ram On Rails

PIONEER DATS RECALLED.

Maxim"

Dartford: Sir Hiram early experiments with a flying Imachine are recalled by Mr. George E. Court, of Rayford Close, Dartford, Kent, and an employee of Messrs. Vickers-Armstrongs Crayford works.

The experiments took place in the grounds of Baldwin's Park, Dartford Heath, now Bexley Mental Hospital.

Mr. Court went to work, with Sir Hiram in 1890 and helped to build the framework of the first: fying machine, which weighed hree tons and was 130 feet long. while the wing span was about 20 feet Its two engines_weigbed over 220 pounds each, and were of 150 horse-powez.

Hitching Apparatus

The flying machine ran on rails | and was secured by hitching ap- paratus so that when it left the ground it was prevented from go- ing too far into the air.

Mr Court states that Sir

comTM Hiram's experiments were cerned solely with proving that

The Hong Kong Chinese General] The Nederland Line Royal such a machine was capable of Chamber of Commerce will cele-Dutch Mail have issued

A very rising into the air, brate the New Year with a tes attractive desk memoranduan for party at 9 pm on New Year's Day 1936.

One of the latest attractions in

The propellers, triangular in shape, were fixed on either side |

of the engines, which were driven

COMPLIMENTS

OF THE

SEASON!

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COMM

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XMAS SALE

on the floor above their offices in -CHINA MAIL” SPECIAL

Those The children Connaught Road, Central

of St. John's by steam through a bent tubular Belgrade, Today.

wishing to attend the function are Cathedral Sunday School presente boiler system. - Owing to the torrential, rains

their second Christmas Mr. Court was in the machine, On the charge of damaging the which have come down in Yago-requested to send in their names ed

Tableaux in the Cathedral Hall with Sir Hing at the controls, YOUR LAST SHOPPING DAY window, Davis and Coombes were slavia during the last few days, the before next Friday..

yesterday evening.........

when it left the ground for the fined $10 or fourteen days hard Wardar River has again flooded labour each, and ordered to pay its banks.

first time. Owing to the hitching SHOP HERE & SAVE YOUR MONEY The city of Neskneb, Kowloon is the "Little Art Shop,"

A Japanese journalist Momo apparatus it did not rise more $25 compensation or three weeks which was visited by a flood catas

where one can find the quaistest taro Nakamura. 43. failed to ap than six or eight inches into the imprisonment, concurrent; on the trophe only ten days ago, is again articles for sale, all hand-painted pear before Mr. Macfadren at the air. charge of assaulting the Indian threatened by the rising water policemen' they were additionally Other cities in southern Serbia in a new method of applied art in Central Police Court yesterday on

a charge of entering the Colony On several occasions after this fined $15 or three weeks hard are likewise in danger of being attractive designs and colours.

without a valid fooded. The railway line between

passport on the machine left the ground, bút The Alipore-left-Shanghai)Saturday and his bail of $50 was once the hitching apparatus broke On the charge of assaulting Skoplje and the Greek frontier is Tansley, the four defendants were flooded at several points, and comfor this port on Sunday and is due estreated. Detective Sergeant Fas the machine was rising into the

E. Russell was for the proseco-air, and it crashed. each bound over in bonds of $50munications are only maintained here on Wednesday afternoon.

tion.

labour concurrent.

FUGITIVES FROM

to keep the peace for one year: by the diversion of traffic-~~Trans- while on the charge of causing Ocean Service. damage to Tansley's clothing they were bound over in bonds of $50 each to come up for judgment; "within our year-and-were for ther ordered to pay $10 com- pensation each or three week's hard labour. the prison term to be concurrent with the first sentence in the case of Daris and Coombes.

HORSES RETAINED

BY CAVALRY

No Immediate Change Pending

QUESTION OF EXPENSE

THE SAAR

Complaints About City's Food

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Paris, To-day. The municipal council of the city of Caen, at a recent session, dis- cussed the problem of the provi-

The ss Soudan is due at Hong Kong from Singapore st about noon, on Wednesday.

STEPS

D.B.S. School Magazine

For December

ARTICLES CONTRIBUTED BY PUPILS

Censland

In 1894 the L.CC. purchased | Baldwin's Park. The machine: Carnival dinner dances have was dismantled. heen "arranged by the Hong Kongj One of the engines and a PTO- | Hotel, Peninsulz Hotel and the peller are in the Imperial In- Repulse Bay Hotel Added at-stitute, London, and also a model; a tractions at the Hong Kong and of the machine. Peninsula Hotels, where dancing will be cartinsed until 3 azn, are

the appearances of Cowan and FURTHER STEP IN

Bailey, Ted and Evelyn, and Estelle Davis.

ST. ANDREW'S WIN

AT BADM

of

sioning of a group of fugitives The December number from the Saar region, who are Steps," the Magazine of the Dio- taking their meals at the city's

cesan Boys' School, which has just expense in boarding houses and been issued, is given over mainly

function.

Sailors' And Soldiers

Home Defeated

ONLY LEAGUE MATCH

TELEVISION

Invention Of New Valve

AMPLIFICATION OF A MILLION TIMES

restaurants in the town.

to ad account of the School's last) The discussion revealed that the Speech Day, July 12, which, for

London: A revolutionary wire food of the ordinary maznicipal

less valve has been invented, the first time for many years, was soup kitchens had not been "good also Price-giving Day. The Head-

which will amplify signals a mil- the Men's lion times and yet has no filament.. enough for the fugitives," who master's Report, reviewing the Only one match in London: The cavalry horse is

were given preferential treatment School's activities both in Doables Bedminton League was one of its chief uses will be in not likely to disappear from the after complaining to the author class-room, and the field of sport played last night, the St. Andrew's television reception. Army for some time to come. in ties. Since the city is now spends included in the account of the Club beating the Sailors and it should pave the way to the spite of the statement that the ing more money for individual

Soldiers' Home by 8 zets to 1

cheap television receiver. One of War Office are considering plans fugitives than for French unem-

Scores were:

the principal reasons for the high for mechanising a large propar-ployed, the town council has de

EF Fincher and IL Kew (St cost of such receivers has been tion of the remaining 20 cavalry cided to make an end of the pre-competitions in which the School beat G. C. Gibbons and A. Ed-

Andrew's) Con

that they require six times as regiments that still retain their

many valves as the average sound Ferential treatssent for the fugi horses.

fives, beginning from January 1

receiver. The output of a single pre Trans-Ocean Service.

valve of this new type-called the Hélectron multipher" has proved Broad sufficient to operate a loudspeaker 1-9 with sech volume and clarity that 21- 9 It is andible themaghout a large 21-9 all

The plans are the result of the experiment at this year's manoeu- vres, when some of the cavalry were given small cars instead of horses—a change which appears to have made a favourable im pression on observers.

INJURED BY ELEPHANT

This is followed by a detailed resume of sporting matches and

[took part, giving results, covering football, cricket, tennis, basketball beat P. K. Collings and J. Heath 21-0 and swimming, and the remainder beat D. Waylen and W. J.

~Hanner of the Magazine is devoted to

AE P. Guest and F. A. articles on various subjects, mainly bridge (St. Andrew's):— contributed by pupils, amongst beat Gibbons and Edwards which may be specially noted an beat Collings and Heath article on dancing and another on bea: Waylen and Hazmer

Such a step, however, must be New York Claiming that "Incidents of Leper Work in in the nature of a future policy her leg has been permanently Formosa".

rather than an immediate inten-injured by a circus elephant,

tion. There are five British Mrs. Emily Lawshe is suing

DANCE

cavalry regiments in India, so Ringling Brother....Barnum YM.C.A. CARNIVAL that at least five of those at home and Bailey Combined Shows, must retain their horses in order Inc., for U.S. $25,000 damages.

Mrs. Lawshe, a former dan- cer, says in her complaint that

to train and provide drafts for them

Two Regiments Equipped while at the circus she visited There is no intention of depriva

the

menagerie where

the

Successful Function Last Night

The annual Christmas Carnival ing the two Household Cavalry elephant, extending his trank, regiments, or, it is believed, the struck a stanchion, fence, gate, Scots Greys of their horses, so section or other object, which of the YMCA last night proved that probably 12 or 13 of our 22 was knocked against her, injura highly successful affair, about 150 people being present and s regiments are not in any case ing her leg-Reuter

great variety of fancy dress dis- available for mechanisation. Two

played

regiments are already equipped in the Royal Tank Corps, and the The dance room was most effec- with armoured cars."

necessity for completing the tively decorated with banting

R. H. Wong: and F. V. Wong (BL) "999 Andrew's):—

lost to Gibbons and Edwards bent Collings, and Heath best Waylen and. Hanner

Previons Inventions

16-21

The valve has been evolved-by 21-12 DE V. K. Zworykin and his; asso- 21-3 ciate of the RCA Victor : Re- search Laboratory in Camden,

FORTNIGHT NEEDED FOR MOBILISATION

Continued from Page 1)

Greece

Approached By Britain

CONSIDERABEE ANXIETY.

tional situation: (Off

however, are

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WaterAthens, To-day. Considerable ariety - preva The remaining seven or eight mechanisation of the artillery. flags, balloons and streamers, here among the public about. for ressons of expense, can în any Favourable Reports: while original lighting effects add-intert developments in case only be turned over gradual The experimental reorganisa jed to the gaiety of the scene. ly from a home to a mechanical tion of infantry brigades into Cabarets items", "were given basis. The length of the process three rifle battalions and a sup- Miss. Peggy Hoser and Mr. must, of course, depend on the port battalion was also, it is un-nett, Mr. L. Angus, Mr. Fery funda available

derstood, reported, on favourably Mr. W. Simpson; ; and Mr. Even in the event of a con as a result of this year's experi- ham.

Arty in the im

be

Here again financial res

will tend to make any

large-scale cha

I one, the weapons

which it would be

equip the support not yet exist

New Jersey, USA. Dr. Zworykin

invented the iconoscope, or "tele

vixion ere," which picks up scenes

direct, like a film camera, for transmission by television- *-

The electron multiplier is little larger than an ordinary wireless valve. It is fully described in the current issue of Wireless World.

WHAT YOU CAN DO.

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